Overview
- Authorities executed roughly 30 warrants across Philadelphia, Delaware County and New Jersey last week in what they called Operation Cocaine and Coffee.
- Prosecutors charged 17 suspected members of the Louis Alexander Drug Trafficking Organization after the raids.
- Investigators say a storefront called Cumberland Coffee & Snacks served as the hub, with crack cooked upstairs and sales on the ground floor and nearby streets.
- Seizures included about four pounds of cocaine, more than 130 pounds of marijuana, fentanyl, ecstasy, cash and 27 firearms.
- Alleged leader Louis Alexander, 56, is jailed on $750,000 bail as the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office takes the cases forward and examines whether the seized guns tie to violent crimes.