President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of Judge Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is already producing results — and criminals in the swamp are learning the hard way that law and order is back.

Just weeks into her new role, Pirro has overseen a wave of prosecutions, the most recent involving two violent drug traffickers tied to an open-air drug market that plagued Northeast D.C. with fentanyl and gunfire.

Jamiek “Onion” Bassil, 32, and Charles “Cheese” Manson, 34, were sentenced Thursday to a combined 310 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to their roles in a deadly drug operation and a reckless shooting that terrorized a residential neighborhood. According to Pirro, both men were key members of the so-called “21st and Vietnam” crew — a violent group operating a brazen drug trafficking network in broad daylight.

Bassil, who admitted to distributing over 400 grams of fentanyl — a substance so lethal that just 2 milligrams can kill — was sentenced to 135 months. Manson received 175 months for his role in the drug conspiracy, as well as for opening fire on an innocent dog walker during a March 2024 dispute. The victim and their pet miraculously escaped unharmed.

"Manson was the gunman in a March 7, 2024, shooting in the 1900 block of I Street, Northeast—the same block as his residence, where he was apprehended eight days later," Pirro stated.

Manson reportedly donned a ski mask handed to him by a fellow crew member before exiting an apartment building with a revolver and firing multiple shots in a residential area. When he was arrested, authorities found a Glock 17, high-capacity magazine, and a stash of deadly narcotics including fentanyl analogues and cocaine.

From January to March 2024, Bassil personally sold up to 80 grams of fentanyl to undercover officers and distributed additional illegal substances, according to Pirro’s office.

Surveillance footage captured Manson dealing drugs directly to buyers, further solidifying the case against him.

But Pirro’s campaign to restore law and order to the nation’s capital hasn’t stopped with just drug traffickers.

In just one month, her office has announced a string of hard-hitting prosecutions:

• A mother convicted of felony murder for killing her 16-month-old daughter.
• A suspect arrested in a D.C. jail homicide.
• A man convicted of kidnapping and strangulation.
• Another arrested for murdering a woman and dumping her body in a dumpster.
• A previously convicted felon sentenced to 69 months for illegally possessing a firearm.

Pirro’s prosecutors also secured a conviction in a chilling domestic terrorism case involving Taylor Taranto, a 39-year-old man from Washington state, who livestreamed threats and admitted to working on a “detonator” as he drove toward the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with a van loaded with weapons.

"On June 28, 2023, Taranto streamed a live video of himself while driving his van near National Harbor, Maryland. He told the crowd that he had been 'working on a detonator' and that he was going to drive a car bomb into the National Institute of Standards and Technology."

Taranto was found guilty on all charges — including illegal gun possession, ammunition possession, and spreading false hoaxes. His sentencing hearing is pending.

In short, the message from Pirro and the Trump administration is clear: the days of soft-on-crime prosecutors are over. D.C. is being cleaned up — and fast.