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Article: Hancock County police seek new drug task force
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- June 24, 2003
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ELLSWORTH - County and municipal law enforcement agencies are
poised to ask local residents to finance their own drug task force to
focus only on the rising drug problem in Hancock County.
The move, which could be a first for Maine, is the result of a
lack of state drug agents assigned to Hancock County and a recent
meeting in Southwest Harbor, during which more than 200 residents
said they were angry about inadequate drug enforcement efforts.
"You can't win a war you don't fight," Sheriff William Clark said
Monday. "There's a void [in drug enforcement] in Hancock County right
now, and if we don't address it, I don't think anyone else is going
to be able to."
Earlier this month, about 40 ...