‘High-Level’ Cartel Members Arrested in South Carolina Bust

South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster posted Monday about a cooperative law enforcement bust in the Charleston area early Sunday, “This is what years of open borders got us.”

Sheriff’s deputies and federal agents made 80 arrests at an illegal nightclub in Ladson in the early morning hours on Sunday. Ladson is an urban community in metropolitan Charleston, about 15 miles northwest of Charleston’s downtown area.

Charleston County Sheriff Carl Ritchie told The Charleston City Paper that at least two “high-level” drug cartel members were among those arrested, along with an international murder suspect. Deputies rescued a missing child held at the bar and discovered several human trafficking victims who are receiving assistance.

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