Methamphetamine ring that reached into the Lehigh Valley will be detailed in news conference

Twenty-seven individuals are allegedly linked to a $3.5 million trafficking operation.

A methamphetamine ring that stretched from the Lehigh Valley to north central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia and its suburbs will be detailed this morning during a news conference in Philadelphia, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.

A series of arrests in "Operation Blowout" will be announced in an investigation that identified 27 individuals involved in the $3.5 million trafficking operation, according to the advisory.

Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler, state Attorney General Linda Kelly and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan will outline the ring that reached as far as Tioga and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania.

Drugs, cash and weapons were seized, the advisory states.