The Greatest Criminal Conspiracy Ever Conceived

Operation Heavy Metal involved not just Homeland Security investigations, but the IRS, the FBI, and dozens of local police departments. By chance, law enforcement agents in California had been working a completely independent case involving buyers, which had also led them to DG. The investigations merged into one, soon becoming so unwieldy that agents had to gather in Philadelphia for three days to coordinate the endgame. All $545 million they ultimately counted passed through Dawa Metals and Mining America in Burlington, New Jersey.