SAN DIEGO -- State Attorney General Kamala Harris Friday announced the arrests of 15 people in a large-scale prescription drug trafficking organization that allegedly smuggled pharmaceuticals from San Diego, Los Angeles and Riverside counties into Mexico and used proceeds to fund its criminal activity in the United States.Harris said the California Department of Justice's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement initiated the investigation after conducting numerous border stops of members of the drug trafficking organization, some of whom were gang members.The group would acquire wholesale quantities of controlled pharmaceutical drugs, such as OxyContin and Hydrocodone, smuggle the drugs to Mexico where they were sold to illicit pharmacies, then smuggle the cash back into the United States to finance their criminal operations, Harris said.
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