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Apprehension (multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency) Task Force Activities
Navajo County Major Crimes Apprehension Team (MCAT)
Source and amount of monies received:
FY 2008 Drug and Gang Enforcement Account Funds: $280,000 Includes Local Cash Matching Funds of: $55,193 Includes State Enhancement Funds of: $130,127
Project Description: This program is administered by the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office. The Navajo County Major Crimes Apprehension Team is a formally organized, multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency task force operating throughout Navajo County with state and local officers to identify, arrest and vigorously prosecute drug traffickers and to seize drugs and drug law violators' assets.
Task Force Participants: Navajo County Sheriff's Office, Arizona Department of Public Safety, Holbrook Police Department, Pinetop-Lakeside Police Department, Show Low Police Department, Snowflake-Taylor Police Department, Winslow Police Department, and the Navajo County Attorney’s Office.
Objective:
To reduce the illegal use, sale, purchase, manufacture and transportation of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, and prescription drugs within Navajo County. Also to reduce the flow of illegal drugs transported through Navajo County via I-40, secondary highways, and commercial transportation.
Project Activity: Since its inception in April 1988, this task force has seized more than 302 pounds of cocaine, 13,196 pounds of marijuana, 2,371 marijuana plants under cultivation, more than 80 pounds of methamphetamine and nominal amounts of other illicit drugs. The unit has made 3,019 arrests of which 55.5 percent (1,660) were for sales/trafficking offenses. The task force also seized traffickers' assets with an estimated value of $5,380,700.
| ARRESTS | FY2005 | FY2006 | FY2007 | FY2008 |
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Use/Possession Buy/Rec/Cult/Mfg/Sales/Trafficking Other Total Arrests |
54 96 0 150 |
99 125 0 224 |
108 115 0 223 |
131 128 0 259 |
| DRUG SEIZURES |
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Cocaine (grams) Heroin (grams) Methamphetamine (grams) Cannabis (pounds) Cannabis (plants) Other drugs (dosage units) |
1,938 1 1,090 71 13 595 |
756 1 590 199 19 450 |
10,896 0 1,495 1,325 66 565 |
116 9,532 689 1,493 44 706 |
| ESTIMATED VALUE OF SEIZURES* | $43,334 | $95,359 | $469,699 | $227,900 |
*Estimated gross value of non-drug seizures (See NOTICE on page 9)
Enhanced Drug and Gang Enforcement 2008