Local News in Brief : Drug Task Force Studied
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The federal Drug Enforcement Agency is considering a special 61-agent interagency task force to prosecute high-stakes drug dealers in the Los Angeles area, Sen. Alan Cranston said Monday.
Cranston said the task force--which would be made up of agents from the DEA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms--could be in operation in June, with a four-month start-up budget of $6.2 million and an annual budget thereafter of $5.4 million.
The task force, requested in March by Mayor Tom Bradley and Police Chief Daryl F. Gates, needs final approval of Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese and the heads of the agencies involved, Cranston said.
“We need a full-scale investigative effort to get to the highest level of those who are profiting from this deadly, multimillion-dollar business,” he said.
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