DEA to Dispatch Task Force to Battle Heroin Trafficking in New York

 

By Denis Slattery

The Drug Enforcement Agency is sending a special heroin task force to New York to help combat heroin trafficking.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the agency to send one of the teams to New York back in June.

“I’m pleased that the feds have heeded the call. As the overdoses related to illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids increase, the new enforcement team will help the NYPD, Long Island and other local police departments across the state contain and beat back the dangerous tide,” Schumer said. 

“We must not let off the gas pedal in the fight against opioid dealers, abuse and death in New York.”

The team will include two new DEA agents and two officers from an existing task force, Schumer said.

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)