Andrew Bailey, left, co-deputy director of the FBI; Robert Eikhoff, special agent in charge of the FBI Jackson Field Office; and Clay Joyner, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, speak in Oxford on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Credit: Michael Goldberg/Mississippi Today
Twenty people, including 14 law enforcement officers, across the Mississippi Delta and Tennessee were arrested on Thursday by the FBI in a drug conspiracy takedown after a sprawling years-long investigation, federal authorities announced.