From nation to nation, the COVID-19 outbreak has been crippling counties and crushing economies.

Numerous law enforcement officials reported in a news site that it also is costing a fortune for drug cartels, as their flowing cash methods had all been jeopardized. This may be the only good thing brought about by the Pandemic.

"Their activities are a lot more apparent than they were three months ago," said Bill Bodner, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles field office.

Cash seizures in the broader region of Los Angeles have more than increased since last year's $4.5 million to $10 million during the similar timeframe this year, from March 1 to May 8. 

According to Bodner, stay-at-home initiatives in California have rendered it even harder for drug cartels to embezzle money and move across the city unseen. 

Moreover, officials have said that since the beginning of the outbreak, federal drug operatives in United States centres have confiscated significantly more unlawful cash than regular in the midst of nationwide lockdowns which have affected the business of cartels.

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Drug operations in New York

As for relocating products along the West Coast, Mexican cartels utilize manufacturing companies as illegitimate banks which enable the drug to be laundered and the cash returned from across southern border

Ray Donovan, a special agent in charge said that however in New York, usually the traffickers depend on "International Asian Criminal Organizations" to collect their cash.

Those drug-trafficking associates would then purchase drug money for American goods and return them to China. In exchange, the drug cartels who receive the goods would then send the money back to Mexico's traffickers - mostly through bank wires, which have been harder to trace from China.

"With all the stores and shops closed down here, they don't have that as one of the means to quickly launder money," Donovan stated. As a result, money from the drug cartels stacked up leading to larger captures.

Pre-pandemic seizures in the area often had total cash hauls of $100,000. Donovan added that now, with the cartel 's tactics of laundering interrupted, New York DEA officials have been beginning to recover stacks of more than $1 million in cash.

The latest news on the bust was not restricted to cash piles. In recent months, federal authorities have seized huge quantities of drugs along the northern border. Border officers having worked out of the Detroit field office captured 2,856 pounds of marijuana, 87 pounds of cocaine, 12 pounds of fentanyl and 12 guns from March 21 to May 16.

As per the officials, whereas coronavirus has been altering portions of the global economy, the overall business influence on the criminal organizations has yet to be assessed.

The outbreak, too, has transformed the way police forces work. One case: the agency has less DEA personnels, and more out in the streets.

"We're practicing social distancing," stated Martin, the Detroit agent. "But the pandemic has not kept us from doing our job."