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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A 10- month investigation led authorities to 600 pounds of pot in east Tennessee and four people were arrested. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, two search warrants were executed Tuesday night in the drug trafficking operation in Luttrell and Knoxville. A third search was made in Powder Springs in Grainger County. The TBI says that as a result of those searches, agents seized more than 600 pounds of marijuana, approximately $50,000 in cash, multiple firearms, and vehicles. Four men were arrested and booked into the Union County jail . Their names and charges are as follows: Gregory Corum – Possession of marijuana for resale over 70 Pounds; $100,000 bond Julio Carmona Godinez – Possession of marijuana for resale over 70 Pounds; $250,000 bond Abraham Andrade Cruz – Possession of marijuana for resale over 70 Pounds; $250,000 bond Saul Sanchez Martinez – Sale and delivery of marijuana; $45,000 bond At this time, the investigation remains acti...

Federal officials found nearly 40 pounds of methamphetamine after making a traffic stop and raiding an apartment Tuesday in Gwinnett County. Bryan Cox, with the Department of Homeland Security , told Channel 2 Action News the bust at the Las Colinas apartment complex in Norcross may be tied to a larger drug operation . A woman bought drugs from the apartment and officers conducted a traffic stop, Cox said. Sanjuana Rendon had more than 3 pounds of meth in her car when she was stopped and arrested at a QuikTrip on Brook Hollow Parkway , according to a warrant. Inside the Norcross apartment, officials found another 35 pounds of meth, cash and guns. Jesus Sosa Perez , 46, and his 18-year-old son, Jesus Cabrera, were arrested. All three people face drug trafficking charges , but Cox couldn’t immediately say how their local operation may be tied to a cartel across the border, Channel 2 reported .  “At initial glance it looks like this is a part of a larger organization,” Cox said. 

Photo by Andrea Yori | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging technologies for digital surveillance , agile drones, and biometric identification. In 2010, almost a decade into this secret war with its voracious appetite for information, the Washington Post reported that the national security state had swelled into a “fourth branch” of the federal government — with 854,000 vetted officials, 263 security organizations , and over 3,000 intelligence units, issuing 50,000 special reports every year. Though stunning, these statistics only skimmed the visible surface of what had become history’s largest and most lethal clandestine apparatus . According to classified documents that Edward Snowden leaked in 2013, the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies alone had 107,035 employees and a combined “b...