Federal and local authorities said they arrested and indicted five individuals accused of flooding Seattle’s Chinatown-International District with dangerous drugs and firearms.

Five men law enforcment calls the most notorious, most violent drug traffickers in Seattle's CID have been federally charged.

Seattle police arrested three people during two separate narcotics operations in Seattle's Chinatown-International District last week.

The Seattle Police Department is cracking down on drug dealing in the city’s Chinatown-International District. On Jan. 6, bike officers with the Seattle Police Department arrested two men after seeing a series of people buy drugs from them near 12th Avenue and South King Street.

SEATTLE — Seattle police seized nearly $2,000 and over 8 grams of fentanyl during two separate arrests in the Chinatown-International District earlier this month. On Jan. 6, police say they spotted two men selling drugs near 12th Avenue and South King Street just before 11:15 a.m.

Seattle police have implemented a strategy involving SWAT and patrol officers to support the Downtown Activation Team.

A group of five men investigators call "The Jungle Shrike" are accused of using threats of "extreme violence" to control the area's drug trade, officials said.

The fentanyl powder alone seized from this group could have unleashed 1.7 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl into our community."

Five men have been federally indicted over drug trafficking in Seattle's homeless encampments and in the Chinatown-International District. Tommy Pham, Donfeuy Saephan, Khampheth Keodara, Sang Tran and Theodore Nation are all charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.