Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-23 | Page 11 | The Narcotic Ring Smashed

iC 3 The N Narcotic Ring Sma Smashed hed I tiA HA HAT T a lie lie for for for years S Salt Lake has been been reputed free of narcotics 1 S We Vc have hay been hoodwinked kept hoodwinked kept in ignorance igno igno- rance J ce lulled into into complacency S Ten p persons w were rc arrested by f federal deal n nar- nar r-I r c tic agents and deputy marshals in a smashing smash smash- ing ng g attack on the Salt Lake dope ring I The clea cleanup up was nothing short shore of Jog It is startling to contemplate the fact Bhat b t- t these ten captured persons persons were carrying ria a. a huge traffic in drugs S Sit Salt lt Lake was a hub hib l for inter dope peddling ing and the local l criminals were linked with a huge national na tia- tia 0 ional ring 4 Yet for years we have been continually Assured b by law enforcement agencies that no o organized drug drug- traffic existed here bere W We were into believing that Salt Lake was one tf pf the white while spots of the nation so far as dealing was vas concerned The conclusion is inescapable therefore that hat the dope ring must have been under official cial ial protection Dismissals and transfers re Ire recently brought about a complete shake shakeup p in bc federal narcotic force here With new officers to conduct conduct- the investigation proof v vas s obtained mighty quickly as to the nefarious ous traffic being carried on op In the light tight of Wednesdays Wednesday's arrests and revelations it seems fortunate for lor Utah that the federal officers v re changed The raids raid r represent pr ent a ble piece of law enforcement activity 2 But there are other protected criminal ings' ings flourishing in Salt Lake They operate unmolested simply because they pay for protection Once the ti between the then underworld n e world and officialdom is sma smashed hed there be more startling arrests The n next step should be the smashing of the liquor and gambling rings Perhaps we will not be bothe bothered ed any wore however with ith officials issuing state state- ments about how how- free dope Salt Lake is The Appalling g misrepresentation is exposed