(WDSU)The U.S. Marshals announced Wednesday that it recovered 11 children in a two-month rescue operation in New Orleans.
The operation was sponsored and funded by the agency’s Missing Child Unit.
Operation Summer Rescue 2020 ran from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 and focused on missing and endangered runaways, according to the U.S. Marshals.
One of the recoveries, a 16-year old runaway juvenile male, was believed to be involved in illegal gang activity in New Orleans involving firearms, according to the U.S. Marshals.