After a seven week investigation 55 people have been arrested in Dover.
More than half the charges were gang related.
The arrests follow some 30 shootings through June and is set to surpass last year’s total of 40.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the initiative had identified just over a hundred suspected gang members in the area.
48 of those were suspected of being in the “48 Gang” and another 39 in the West Side Gang.
Authorities say they scooped up 17 firearms as well as confiscating nearly 26-hundred bags of heroin and 16 grams of cocaine among other drugs.
The News Journal reports authorities say that one firearm has been connected to two shootings in Dover.
