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Article: SEATTLE POLICE, DEA ANNOUNCE RESULTS OF OPEN-AIR DRUG MARKET BUSTS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 18, 2006
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The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle Field Office issued the following press release:
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and DEA Special Agent in Charge Rodney G. Benson announced today the results of a collaborative effort to crack down on open-air drug markets in Seattle. Detectives from both the Seattle Police Department's Narcotics Unit and Precinct Anti-Crime Teams worked together with Federal Drug Enforcement Agents from the Mobile Enforcement Team to target drug dealers in downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill. The Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) was created by DEA in early 1995 as a response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime ...