District police and ATF agents said Monday that they hace have arrested 70 suspects and seized more than $7.1 million in guns and drugs in an year-long sting in which undercover officers acted as recording studio artists.
Officers set up the “Manic Enterprises” studio in Northeast Washington in November 2010 and let it be known to the underground world that they were also in the market for guns and drugs.
Within a year, the officers had recovered 161 firearms, including 29 assault weapons, 80 pounds of methamphetamine, 9.6 kilograms of cocaine and 1.25 gallons of PCP, 24 pounds of marijuana, heroin and Ecstasy.
“If these drugs and guns had made it to our streets, the impact would have been devastating to the community,” said D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier.
