The FBI and Philadelphia's top federal prosecutor announced Friday the takedown of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization that they say ran like a business and peddled in poison for more than a decade.

The target was a gang that for years ran a 24-hour open-air drug market on the 3100 block of Weymouth Street, court documents said.

Patel called Smith's theory that Trump directed the NBA gambling sting "the single dumbest thing I've ever heard."

New York FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia said that "Operation Royal Flush" has arrested dozens of members of various crime families of "la Cosa Nostra" in an illegal gambling scheme. They allegedly used NBA stars as "bait" to get people into high-level poker games,

Authorities said the "mind-boggling" fraud involved tens of millions of dollars and included members of organised crime.

Former Boston Celtics guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and more than 30 other individuals were named in indictments unsealed Thursday morning in two criminal cases involving sports betting and illegal poker games that officials said were run by the mob.

Over 30 people, including including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, were indicted on charges of illegal sports betting.

Federal law enforcement agents are carrying out a large-scale narcotics investigation Friday in Kensington, FBI sources told CBS News Philadelphia. FBI sources said the operation is part of a multi-state investigation involving more than 20 people.