Editor’s Note: Local law enforcement officers are the keystone in protecting public safety and the rule of law.
From: The Northern Virginia Daily
By Joe Beck
The U.S. Justice Department’s asset forfeiture program continued to provide hefty sums of money to some area law enforcement agencies in fiscal year 2014.
A major undercover investigation that ended four years ago and involved the sale and transport of $33 million in contraband cigarettes returned $266,215 to the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office, the largest sum area law enforcement agencies received from the asset forfeiture program.
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Roper said his department entered the investigation, which spanned Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina and Virginia, near the end. His agency joined the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other federal agencies that had targeted the convenience store operators for violating cigarette trafficking laws.
