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Drug dragnet: Busts have big impact
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Drug dragnet: Busts have big impact

  • Neita Cecil
  • Updated

Last year, police in The Dalles started getting calls from other police agencies, asking them, “What’s going on there? Our drug dealers are afraid to go to The Dalles.” What was going on was a regional drug task force went into high gear, cranking out 30-plus search warrants in 2015, up from around five or six the year before, when staffing was lower.