MEMPHIS, Tenn. --- The West Tennessee Drug task Force is touting two big drug busts made recently in an area just west of the Memphis airport.

Agents with the 30th Judicial District out of Memphis seized 118 pounds of methamphetamine in an operation in the 38131 zip code. That area is near Airways and Democrat roads.

The operation was funded by the Governor’s Violent Crime Intervention Funding Zip Code Grant, which provides funding to reduce violent crime in Tennessee’s 10 most violent zip codes.

The case will be prosecuted by Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, who said, “Meth is a killer, and amounts of that size mean significant drug trafficking. Thanks to the DTF staff for disrupting it.”

Friday morning, agents with the task force seized 2.5 pounds of Cocaine, 5 bottles (

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