Billed as Brooklyn's biggest ever gun smuggling bust, nearly two dozen people — mostly from Virginia — have been rounded up and arrested on charges they brought over 200 high-caliber weapons of all sorts into New York City, authorities said Wednesday.
The suspects were taken into custody as part of "Operation Tidal Wave," a joint operation conducted by the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office — the latest effort to plug the "iron pipeline," the name for the conduit of guns smuggled from southern states to New York City, reports Newsday .