We are proud and honored to announce our Summit County Drug Unit has been awarded the '2022 Task Force of the Year' by the state Narcotics Association Regions Coordinating Officers (NARCO) and Ohio Task Force Commanders Association (OTFCA)!
The Summit County Drug Unit is headed up by the Summit County Sheriff's Office. It is a multi-jurisdictional taskforce consisting of:
Summit County Sheriff's Office
Akron Police Department
The University of Akron Police Department
Cuyahoga Falls Police Department
New Franklin Police Department
Stow Police Department,
Silver Lake Police Department
Ohio National Guard
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Ohio Parole Board
Drug Enforcement Agency
They also partner with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Ohio Northeast Smuggling Enforcement Team, US Marshall’s Violent Fugitive Taskforce, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI.
Over the past year our Drug Unit has opened 152 new cases with 81 resulting arrests; served 127 search warrants; removed 51 guns from the streets; worked 6 cases alongside the DEA; seized over $2 million in currency and assets; and removed 40,480 grams of cocaine, 66,017 grams of methamphetamine, 6,854 grams of fentanyl, and 62,555 grams of marijuana from the streets of our community.
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