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Operation Legend, launched in early July to address the explosion of violent crime accompanying the George Floyd riots, has pulled more than 1,000 serious criminals off the streets and seized 400 firearms so far.\u00a0 Danielle Wallace of Fox News reports<\/a> that the $78 million campaign, which swarmed hundreds of federal agents into Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Memphis, and Indianapolis has resulted in arrests for crimes including murder, firearm possession, carjacking, drug dealing and bank robbery.\u00a0 To date 61 defendants are facing federal charges.\u00a0 Among those arrested with the help of federal agents is 22-year-old Ryson Ellis for the June 29 murder of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro , who was shot and killed while he slept in his mother’s Kansas City apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operation Legend, launched in early July to address the explosion of violent crime accompanying the George Floyd riots, has pulled more than 1,000 serious criminals off the streets and seized 400 firearms so far.\u00a0 Danielle Wallace of Fox News reports that the $78 million campaign, which swarmed hundreds of federal agents into Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Memphis, and Indianapolis has resulted in arrests for crimes including murder, firearm possession, carjacking, drug dealing and bank robbery.\u00a0 To date 61 defendants are facing federal charges.\u00a0 Among those arrested with the help of federal agents is 22-year-old Ryson Ellis for the June 29 murder of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro , who was shot and killed while he slept in his mother’s Kansas City apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"\nFed Crackdown on Violent Criminals Paying Off - 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