MIAMI - JULY 17: Josephine Martinez is handcuffed as she is taken into custody by Miami-Dade police Mortgage Fraud Task Force during an early morning raid July 17, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Martinez was arrested during Operation: "Life is Good", which included the arrest of 15 people suspected of being involved with mortgage fraud. The individuals were arrested for activity that included, but not limited to racketeering, conspiracy to racketeer, use of personal identification information, grand theft, and money laundering. Some statistics show that Florida ranks first in the nation for mortgage fraud and second in the number of foreclosures. The task force is comprise of various agencies including the Miami-Dade Police Department, Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office, Florida Attorney General's Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, State of Florida Department of Financial Services, FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office, Office of the Treasury and others. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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A total of 46,637 suspects have been arrested for various crimes including for the possession of narcotics, firearms and explosives by the police during island-wide raids conducted from June 6 to 30 midnight, police said.
Accordingly, a total of 10,968 suspects were arrested over procession of heroin, cannabis and Ice drugs. The police seized 7.1 kgs of heroin, over 295 kgs of cannabis and over 1 kg of Ice drugs.
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Police said 89 suspects were arrested with 11 T-56 rifles, a T-81 rifle which were seized by the STF in Pitipana and 26 Bore 12 firearms, 3 pistols, 46 repeaters, 35 other firearms, 578 ammunitions, 3 swords and 2 knifes.
Ten suspects were arrested over possession of 367g of explosives, 23 detonators and 10 hand grenades.
Over 401,000 litres of illicit liquor were taken into custody along with 9,198 suspects during the period.
Police said 9,077 suspects who were issued arrest warrants and 17,275 other suspects were also among the arrested