A statewide operation designed to get illegal drugs off the streets has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since November, and the seizure of more than $55 million in drugs.
According to Arkansas Drug Director Boyce Hamlet, “Operation Task Force Arkansas” was a combined effort by 18 drug task force agencies in the state ended a three month focus with a three day intense warrants sweep Jan. 25 that resulted in 300 total warrants being served.
A news release said within three days, task force officers confiscated 122 grams of fentanyl, 6,562 grams of meth, 500 prescription pills, 500 counterfeit pills, mostly fentanyl, 79 firearms, and made 256 arrests.
Since the beginning of this year, they have made 522 arrets and seized more than 1.5 million grams of drugs including 609 grams of fentanyl, 60,000 grams of methamphetamine, approximately 23,000 pills, all estimated to be worth nearly $22 million.
