The USA Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Oregon is honoring the Clackamas County Interagency Job Power (CCITF) for excellent work within the fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin epidemic in Oregon with the annual Regulation Enforcement and Company Associate (LEAP) Award.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace created the LEAP award to acknowledge, thank, and honor businesses and legislation enforcement companions for his or her distinguished service to their civil and legal instances or issues. CCITF was nominated for the award together with Washington County’s Westside Interagency Narcotics (WIN) crew.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Oregon’s nomination says, “WIN and CCITF are chargeable for dozens of federal instances which have been indicted, pled, and sentenced over the previous yr – instances involving defendants promoting medicine to highschool college students, Honduran crews shopping for fentanyl from Sinaloa drug cartel sources working out of Mexico after which distributing it all through the Portland metro space, and the investigation and prosecution of a number of “Len Bias” instances involving overdose deaths ensuing from using fentanyl. The variety of defendants arrested and prosecuted, in addition to the quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin these two groups have seized prior to now yr, is excellent. Their joint efforts in tackling the disaster of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin inside the group is to be counseled.”
CCITF, led by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Workplace, works to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations in and round Clackamas County, and to cut back unlawful medicine and associated crimes in our group.
CCITF is comprised of members from the Canby Police Division, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Workplace, Molalla Police Division, Oregon State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI). CCITF is supported by our group with the passage of the Public Security Levy and grant funding from the Oregon-Idaho Excessive Depth Drug Trafficking Space (HIDTA) program.
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Brian McCall, Public Info Officer
Clackamas County Sheriff’s Workplace
Communications Unit
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