The Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Friday the creation of six new enforcement teams focused on battling the flow of illicit heroin and fentanyl. One of those teams is coming to Cleveland.
The enforcement teams will be established in Cleveland and Cincinnati along with New Bedford, Mass., Charleston West Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina and Long Island, New York.
The DEA determined the location of the teams based on rates of opioid mortality, level of heroin and fentanyl seizures and where resources would make the greatest impact in communities.
“These teams will enhance DEA’s ability to combat trafficking in heroin, fentanyl, and fentanyl analogues and the violence associated with drug trafficking," said DEA Acting Administrator Robert Patterson in a press release.
The teams, funded in the DEA 2017 fiscal year, will be made up of DEA special agents, along with state and local task force officers.
