Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release Friday the results of a 15-month undercover operation that resulted in the arrests of 25 accused drug traffickers in the county.

During the investigation, dubbed “Clean Sweep,” LCSO’s Special Tactics Investigative Narcotics Group worked with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics to respond to citizen complaints about illegal drug activity in the county and issued 31 felony arrest warrants for the distribution of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

The operation so far has resulted in the seizure of eight firearms (one of which had been reported stolen), 2,800 grams of marijuana, hundreds of grams of cocaine and methamphetamine, a gram of heroin and 330 dosage units of various other controlled substances.

“Our agents did an outstanding job of removing these drug traffickers from the streets and ridding our community of these illegal drugs,” Sheriff Eddie Hawkins said in the press release. “The suspects that commit crimes must be held accountable and stopped from causing future misery, violence and death. Without question, lives have been saved as a result of this investigation.”

The operation is ongoing, Hawkins said.