Editorial: Massive Drug Bust Shows Cartel’s Sway in Both Mass., N.H.

Editorial: Massive drug bust shows cartel’s sway in both Mass., N.H.

A few months earlier we mentioned a meeting between Mayor Brian DePeña of Lawrence and the governor of New Hampshire, an encounter that we hoped would forge a new chapter in stemming the flow of illegal drugs in both states. Gov. Kelly Ayotte shed the combative tone that previously had placed the blame squarely on Massachusetts border communities like Lawrence as the source of the illicit substances flooding into the Granite State. DePeña correc…

Feds arrest 171 suspected members of drug cartel in New England, including 49 in Mass.

The Drug Enforcement Agency arrested 171 suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel in New England in August.