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Ohio Drug Facts
Ohio Drug Information provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
State Facts:
• Population: 11,373,541
• Law Enforcement Officers: 26,219
• State Prison Population: 64,500
• Probation Population: 211,237
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2004 Federal Drug Seizures:
• Cocaine: 364 kgs.
• Heroin: 2.2 kgs.
• Methamphetamine: 1.9 kgs.
• Marijuana: 1,422 kgs.
• Ecstasy: 4,622 tablets
• Methamphetamine Laboratories: 119 (DEA, state, and local)
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Violent Crime Rate:
• National Ranking: 29
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DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams:
This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation.
There have been 409 deployments completed resulting in 16,763 arrests of violent drug criminals as of February 2004.
There have been six MET deployments in the State of Ohio since the inception of the program: Toledo , East Cleveland , Jefferson County , Lincoln Heights , Warren , and Youngstown .
DEA Regional Enforcement Teams:
This program was designed to augment existing DEA division resources by targeting drug organizations operating in the United States where there is a lack of sufficient local drug law enforcement.
This Program was conceived in 1999 in response to the threat posed by drug trafficking organizations that have established networks of cells to conduct drug trafficking operations in smaller, non-traditional trafficking locations in the United States .
Nationwide, there have been 22 deployments completed resulting in 608 arrests of drug trafficking criminals as of February 2004. There have been no RET deployments in the State of Ohio .
Special Topics:
HIDTA: During June 1999, ONDCP designated areas within northern Ohio as the Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (Ohio HIDTA).
The HIDTA region was expanded during 2004 to include central and southern Ohio counties. The Ohio HIDTA is comprised of the Ohio counties, Cuyahoga, Lucas, Mahoning, Stark, Summit , Fairfield , Franklin , Greene, Hamilton , and Montgomery .
Currently the following agencies are assigned responsibilities in the Ohio HIDTA program: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Marshall's Service, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigations, and other local Police Departments and law enforcement agencies.
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