LOS ANGELES: Police staged mass dawn raids in Los Angeles on Wednesday, seizing at least $65 million in cash and funds allegedly linked to money-laundering for Mexican drug cartels.

In what was dubbed "Operation Fashion Police, nine people were arrested as some 1,000 officers fanned out in the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles, which one official called the "epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering."

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