Federal officials are touting the results of a surge of FBI agents to the St. Louis region since August.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey were in town Friday to brief local and state law enforcement and elected officials on the results of that surge. The field office is responsible for a wide swath of eastern Missouri.

According to data the bureau provided, field agents arrested 276 people, seized more than 100 weapons, as well as nearly 260 kilos of methamphetamine and almost three of fentanyl. A spokeswoman with the FBI in St. Louis said nearly all of those individuals are facing either state or federal charges.

But the success was not just limited to those three months, said Bailey, a former Missouri Attorney General.

“If you look back across the last f

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