More good work in partnership ...
Just another day at work!! Thanks to my LA HIDTA partners at INCA we got approximately 200 lbs. of meth off the streets on a recent investigation and arrested two major traffickers.
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, created by the United States Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, provides assistance to Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States. The purpose of the program is to reduce drug trafficking and production in the United States by facilitating cooperation among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to share information and implement coordinated enforcement activities; enhancing law enforcement intelligence sharing among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies; providing reliable law enforcement intelligence to law enforcement agencies needed to design effective enforcement strategies and operations; and supporting coordinated law enforcement strategies which maximize use of available resources to reduce the supply of illegal drugs in designated areas and in the United States as a whole. The Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (LA HIDTA) was one of the original five HIDTA regions designated as a "Drug Trafficking Gateway." Now there are 28 designated HIDTA regions. The LA HIDTA region encompasses the Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. It is composed of officers and executives from more than 170 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies within the region. The LA HIDTA is governed by an Executive Board comprised of twenty members - ten federal and ten state / local agency executives. The Executive Board facilitates inter-agency drug control efforts to eliminate or reduce drug threats. Member executives ensure threat specific strategies and initiatives are developed, employed, supported and evaluated. Aligned with the National Drug Control Strategy, the mission of the LA HIDTA is to measurably reduce drug trafficking, thereby reducing the impact of illicit drugs in this and other areas of the country.
LA HIDTA (Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area)的外部链接
1340 W. 6th Street
US,California,Los Angeles,90017
Great job on this one ... and one of MANY this past quarter involving LA HIDTA Task Forces / Initiative Partnerships.
Productive month for the good guys. 80,000 fentanyl pills, 84 lbs. of meth off the streets and 4 criminals relocated to the grey bar hotel. Thanks to my state and federal partners (CA DOJ FEP and LA HIDTA/INCA)!!
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FENTANYL: "Fentanyl manufactured by the Mexican cartels is the main driver behind the ongoing epidemic of drug poisoning deaths in the United States. Further complicating the fentanyl threat is the addition of the dangerous veterinary tranquilizer xylazine to the fentanyl to create what is known as “tranq.” Fentanyl is also being hidden in other powder drugs such as cocaine and heroin and, to a lesser extent, methamphetamine. Users often take these drugs without knowing they contain fentanyl, which greatly increases the risk of poisoning. Fake prescription pills containing fentanyl present an extreme danger. Most of these fake pills are made to look nearly identical to real prescription pills, such as oxycodone (M30, Percocet); hydrocodone (Vicodin); or alprazolam (Xanax) – the fentanyl content in these fake pills is known only after laboratory analysis. In 2023, DEA forensic laboratory analysis showed that approximately 7 in 10 fake pills contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl (approximately 2 milligrams). Fentanyl also poses an ongoing threat to law enforcement personnel and other first responders who may encounter it in the performance of their duties. China-based chemical suppliers are the main source of the chemicals used in the production of illicit fentanyl. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels manufacture fentanyl in clandestine labs they oversee in Mexico, in both powder form and pressed into fake pills, and traffic it into the United States through any of the many entry points they control." "According to the CDC, 68 percent of all drug poisoning deaths in 2022 – 74,225 of the 111,036 total – were caused by synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl (see Figure 7, above). CDC provisional data shows that synthetic opioids were the cause of another 38,000 deaths in the first six months of 2023. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels are using social media platforms to flood the U.S. drug market with fentanyl and other illicit drugs. Using both open and encrypted platforms and messaging applications, the cartels advertise drugs for sale, process payments for drugs, recruit and train couriers and dealers, communicate with customers, and plan transactions – all online. Encryption on many platforms has diminished law enforcement’s visibility into drug trafficking and other crimes committed using these platforms and applications. The cartels maintain a web of networks to smuggle drugs into the United States, to include air and sea cargo, vehicular and pedestrian traffic, border tunnels, and stash houses on both sides of the border, and then further direct drug trafficking and distribution inside the United States." DEA 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment (Pages 22-23)