Officers conduct drug bust at Carthage

Thursday, February 14, 2002

CARTHAGE, Mo. -- Scores of law officers swarmed this southwestern Missouri town early Wednesday, raiding homes and arresting at least 46 people in a massive drug and weapons bust dubbed "Operation Cocaine Cowboys."

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