Police: Rap studio sting yields $7.1 million in drugs, guns

By Scott McCabe

Published December 19, 2011 5:00am ET

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Police: Rap studio sting yields $7.1 million in drugs, guns — Law enforcement officials recovered more than 161 weapons in an undercover sting in which officers posed as recording studio artists in the market for guns and drugs.

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.

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