Cartel runs anti-surveillance on Oconee drug officers

While the Oconee Narcotics Squad keeps its eyes on drug traffickers, the traffickers keep eyes on the narcotics officers. Is it recognition that the Oconee Sheriff’s Office has succeeded in denting some of the illegal trade? Or is it just good business on the part of the cartel? Ken Washington, the captain of Oconee’s Narcotics Squad, told Walhalla Rotary Club today that the cartel is in Oconee County, and it’s the infamous Mexican Cartel which is behind much of the illegal drugs that are smuggled in the U-S. “When we’re watching them, they are coming by the Sheriff’s Office and they are taking pictures of our vehicles up at the Sheriff’s Office because they run their intel,” Washington said. “They have more money than the government.”