Update: Press Release from Middlesex D.A, Marian Ryan regarding the story we brought you earlier today: 21 Arrested in Connection with Large Scale Drug and Firearms Operation | Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office (middlesexda.com)

InsideLowell has learned that months of investigations by the Lowell Police Department led to a series of raids this morning in conjunction with Massachusetts State Police and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

The raids were carried out across multiple Massachusetts communities and multiple states along New England and the Eastern Seaboard. In all, there were more than a dozen arrests as a result of the joint law enforcement efforts spearheaded by LPD.

This story continues to develop. We’ll have more information as it becomes available.