An eight-week operation aimed at countering gun violence and drug trafficking in Dayton, Ohio, has resulted in federal charges against 47 individuals, with 43 arrested by authorities.
Four suspects are still at large with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offering a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to their arrests.
Operation Fly City, which began on April 27, also led to the seizure of “176 firearms, as well as machinegun conversion devices and kilogram quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a June 22 statement. The charges against the 47 individuals “were brought via 20 federal indictments and three federal criminal complaints in Dayton over the past few weeks.”…