ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) today announced awards to 16 jurisdictions totaling nearly $900,000 from Maryland’s Heroin Coordinator Program, which plays a critical role in multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations by analyzing data that links overdose victims to drug trafficking organizations operating within the state and across state lines.
The awards announced today will help support jurisdictions in hiring a qualified law enforcement professional to serve as a Heroin Coordinator. The coordinators will use the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) system to monitor and track drug investigations, drug seizures, drug arrests, heroin and opioid overdoses, and other drug-related investigative activities.
“To improve our efforts to address the heroin and opioid crisis, we must have a seamless communications system which allows for collaboration and information sharing across multiple law enforcement agencies,” said V. Glenn Fueston, Jr., GOCCP Executive Director. “Funding for this position is key.”
Awards were made to the following entities:
- Allegany/Cumberland Police Department: $56,066
- Anne Arundel County Police Department: $70,800
- Baltimore Police Department: $68,700
- Baltimore County Police Department: $42,608
- Calvert County Sheriff’s Office: $46,975
- Cecil County Sheriff’s Office: $51,504
- Charles County Sheriff’s Office: $50,000
- Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office: $48,700
- Frederick City Police Department: $26,102
- Harford County Sheriff’s Office: $78,646
- Howard County Police Department: $74,257
- Montgomery County Police Department: $60,000
- Talbot County Sheriff’s Office: $44,000
- Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office: $40,662
- Worcester County Board of County Commissioners: $50,615
- University of Baltimore - $87,542
Since the Heroin Coordinator grant program began, more than $1.6 million has been awarded through the program. Many notable achievements have been made possible through this grant, including a recent investigation leading to a Baltimore heroin dealer pleading guilty to drug conspiracy charges that linked 27 overdose victims (9 fatal), the recovery of $405,156 in drug proceeds, and approximately one kilogram of heroin. This year alone, Heroin Coordinators added more than 5,000 drug-related cases to HIDTA for review.
“Governor Hogan has directed our office to use every resource possible to keep Maryland streets safe,” said Fueston. “A big part of that job is tracking crime and drug activity, and we are committed to doing just that.”
18 comments:
Limelight will appoint himself and pocket the cash.
Forget the "dopes"....use that to clean-up the crap from the dam!
More waste of $$$$ someone in the Hogan family get the contract $$$$.?
what a waste of tax dollars. Lengthy prison sentences for dealers. would be a good start.
Achievements??? Opiod deaths have gone UP every year! Only in politics can your throw away millions of dollars to solve a problem, have the problem get worse, and then put out an announcement about "achievements." SMDH.
Wicomico got the least of the shore counties listed
I guess Somerset doesn't matter. Poor UMES students
Is frosh going to sue Trump again?
This is just as effective as throwing the money into a fire pit, except that there's political value to the announcement. Make no mistake, the Democrats would have done the same thing, but with a bigger hoop-de-doo release, written as if it would cure the incurable problem. Addicts will exist as long as there is a demand. A demand will exist until there is a panacea for unhappiness, disappointment, and discomfort.
UMES home of the X bill Cosby award lol
Same as throwing money to education. Been a war on drugs since I was a teen and I'm old enough to have been on the supreme court a average run...50-60 years lol
$40K for Wicomico? That won't even pay for billboard advertising and trinkets.
If you want to use 900K dollars for good money.....give the state employees their pharma coverage we were promised so many years ago and now dropped when we are old and need it. Hogan can be my hero if he ca do that.
He should just check with the CIA.
They take control in Afghanistan and move the drugs throughout the world in days. Pretty sure they have some good logistics for Mr Hogan.
Somerset would just use it for good old boy kids.
Almost a million dollars allocated for what the computer programs already do.
Somerset County,once more, got shafted by the State. All those political assholes showed up last week for the Clambake making empty promises to everyone.Yet they screw us repeatedly.
In Crisfield people are finding used syringes in their yards and in the gutters, and there are tons of addicts wandering town in a daze.
Then again, Hogan may be aware of this areas track record with state and Federal money.
They got millions after Sandy yet it still floods all the time there and the sewer system is shot. Where did all the Sandy money go?
Legalize marijuana , and you will see a drop in opioid caused death. It happened in Colorado. That could be us.
Justice Reinvestment Act making it WORSE...joe...do a piece on this piece of garbage legislation...
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