300 arrested in swoop on US drugs cartel

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.

The tentacles of La Familia extend coast to coast and deep into America’s heartland, with arrests announced in 38 cities from Boston to Seattle and from St Paul, Minnesota, to Raleigh, North Carolina.