“Operation Campfire” Nets Guns, Drugs, Wanted Fugitives
By Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
September 22, 2025
MOBILE, AL. Mobile police said that they continue to work to take drugs and guns out of the community and put criminals in jail.
A recent example of this culminated with police serving search warrants on drug houses, breaking doors down and wrapping up a three-month crackdown they call Operation Campfire.
The operation focused on the Campground Historic District and surrounding neighborhoods, an area where police say they continue to receive complaints about drug activity.
A spokesperson for the Mobile police said that they like to work with other federal law enforcement agencies such as the DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, and the ATF to go from street-level dealers and work their way up the chain as they work their way to the bigger dealers.
Where you find drugs, you’ll find guns and money, and that often means that street dealers are connected with a bigger network that often operate in multiple states.
“20% of the population commits 80% of the crime is absolutely true, particularly individuals that are involved in stuff, and obviously, we do what we can to make arrests, but even we can’t with witnesses not cooperating,” police said.
Over the course of Operation Campfire, Mobile police served 17 search arrest warrants, arresting 45 people on charges ranging from drug possession to trafficking. Officers also seized more than $12,000 in cash.
Doing these kind of busts help the community feel safer and stop the flow of gangs, drugs and guns into neighborhoods, at least for a little while.
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