The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is coming off a historic year of drug enforcement. In 2011, deputies saw the amount of marijuana seized double, while cocaine heroin and methamphetamine seizures skyrocketed.
The 2011 numbers reflect increased enforcement by PCSO patrol deputies which included the formation of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Anti-Smuggling Task Force as well as a historic, year-long joint investigation with ICE Homeland Security Investigations and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, known as Operation Pipeline Express.
An overflow of marijuana bundles fill the space used to process vehicles at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.
A PCSO deputy covers the window of a trailer during an October drug raid at a Pinal County home in Hidden Valley.
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