Diddy..I have been in the midwest area searching... just because...
I found this interesting about the highways..but I have already posted 2 very interesting news articles on the Drug Checkpoints that have been going on in Missouri..
I thought this was interesting....
"Missouri is crossed by a number of interstate highways (Interstates 44, 64, and 70 from east to west; 35 and 55 from north to south), providing excellent smuggling routes for drug trafficking organizations."
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The St. Louis Homicide Initiative was created by DEA St. Louis and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to address and combat the city's increase in drug related homicides.
The objectives of this initiative are to identify violent organizations involved in drug trafficking activity and to develop investigative leads by use of court authorized telephone intercepts to clear unsolved homicides and related crimes.
Missouri is crossed by a number of interstate highways (Interstates 44, 64, and 70 from east to west; 35 and 55 from north to south), providing excellent smuggling routes for drug trafficking organizations.
During 2004, highway interdictions in Missouri led to seizures including approximately 500 kilograms of cocaine, 950 grams of heroin, 16,400 pounds of marijuana, 9 pounds of methamphetamine HCl, 3.5 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, 48 ounces of PCP, 500 dosage units of LSD, 50 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, and over $3.5 million dollars.
Among the U.S./Mexico partnership efforts is an agreement between the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Government of Mexico to establish specialized methamphetamine enforcement teams on either side of the border. In Mexico, these teams will focus on investigating and targeting the most wanted Mexican methamphetamine drug trafficking organizations, while DEA-led efforts on the U.S. side will focus on the methamphetamine traffickers and organizations transporting and distributing the finished methamphetamine being produced in Mexico.
Other initiatives that are part of the U.S./Mexico partnership include:
A newDEA and Customs and Border Protection Service focus on ports of interest within the United States targeting suspicious cargo that is likely to be related to methamphetamine trafficking organizations;
U.S. Efforts
Domestic Efforts will focus on a redirection of DEA clan lab enforcement teams. The significant reduction in domestic small toxic labs will allow these teams to refocus their efforts at targeting Mexican methamphetamine trafficking organizations by tracing chemicals, finished methamphetamine and proceeds to organizational leaders in the U.S. and Mexico rather than merely locating and cleaning up labs. An additional focus of these teams will be to identify and dismantle U.S.-based transportation and distribution cells.
A new clandestine lab training facility at the DEA Academy in Quantico, Va. will be established in the fall of 2006. At this facility, DEA will train US and foreign law enforcement officials on the latest techniques in clandestine lab detection, enforcement, and safety in a state-of-the-art facility.
I guess we will be on this for a while but I also have been researching the Office of Justice Programs...
Take a look at the Prescription Drug monitoring program...
Looks to me like we are tying ourselves in nicely with two movements...So I guess we shall see...
* Office of Justice Programs (directed investments): $69.2 million for the Drug Courts to help communities plan, implement, and enhance drug courts; $29.8 million for Southwest Border Drug Prosecution funding for local prosecutor offices in four states (California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico) along the Southwest Border for the costs of processing, detaining, and prosecuting drug and other cases referred from federal arrests or federal investigations;
*$9.9 million for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program help states to plan or implement a prescription drug monitoring; and $10.7 million for Cannabis Eradication.
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