State officials have warned sheriffs that Honduran gangs have stepped up drug trafficking along the Wasatch Mountains, Iron County's SWAT team callouts are "Way up" and deputies are finding more guns when they serve search warrants, Sheriff Carpenter said.
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Communities have worried this year about a nexus between border crossings and the spread of COVID-19 as migrants disperse from border states.
Of the drugs that come primarily across the southern border, only marijuana is showing a significant drop-off.
"The higher volumes reduce the price of these drugs on the streets, expands the number of drugs available and causes more devastation." The Biden administration has announced plans to ramp up pressure on the cartels that control the smuggling of people and drugs into the U.S. The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it had designated Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela and seven of his associates under the Kingpin Act, effectively freezing their assets held in the U.S. The government says Mr. Valenzuela Valenzuela is a player in the Sinaloa Cartel and moves heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl out of Nogales, in Sonora, Mexico, right across the border from Nogales, Arizona.
"Several years ago, we hardly ever saw guns involved with drug warrants. Now it's commonplace, where we find stolen guns that have been traded for drugs, or stolen drugs that have been taken down to Las Vegas to be traded for guns," he said.
Sheriff Carpenter said one problem in Utah is the state's Justice Reinvestment Initiative, which reduced the classification for some drug crimes.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/26/border-chaos-reverberates-deep-americas-heartland/
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