The Port Jervis Police Department’s increasing involvement in the Orange County Drug Task Force has enabled the city to comprehensively target drug trafficking networks, according to police chief William Worden.
One such example is the recent charges of 36 defendants for allegedly being part of a drug trafficking operation based out of Port Jervis, New York, with tentacles reaching out to nearby communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he said.
The result came after the department temporarily sent a detective to work on the task force full time.
“The task force model allows agencies to share resources and costs, and we were able to take down the entire hierarchy from the top-down to the street-level dealers,” Worden told The Epoch Times….