Port Angeles – Cartel Drugs

Voting is highly emphasized in American culture. Asking questions related to public policy takes a lower priority.

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Homeland Security funding and performance?

Unlike many cities of its size, Port Angeles maintains a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence.

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

New Port Angeles USBP Station opened more than a decade ago. Has the new station been able to prevent cartel drugs from entering the Olympic Peninsula?

Newspeople remain silent.

If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:

Jan 27, 2023 KONP FENTANYL NOW TOP DRUG IN CLALLAM COUNTY OVERDOSES

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Has a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security created any shortage of opioids in the Puget Sound area?

In the news:

Aug 28, 2023 Peninsula Daily News

Coast Guard cutter Active returns to Port Angeles

Crew back from 58-day patrol that included counternarcotics

“The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Active and crew returned to Port Angeles after the crew seized 130 kilograms of cocaine, aided in a search of a missing sailor and rescued three sea turtles during a 58-day counternarcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.”

Love to see newspeople ask:

Have long range drug patrols out of Port Angeles been able to keep cartel product out of local correctional facilities?

Correctional facility security screening protocols fail to keep meth use from happening inside the facility:

Radio Pacific Aug 24, 2023

OLALLA WOMAN ARRESTED IN OVERDOSE DEATH OF CLALLAM COUNTY INMATE

“Lauren Smith was booked into the Clallam County Jail after being identified as the person who provided methamphetamine to an inmate at Clallam Bay Corrections Center, causing his overdose death.”

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News articles describe what may be cartel product in the local area:

Aug 29, 2023 Peninsula Daily News

Forks man charged with drug endangerment

“He was arrested Thursday after the child was found in a bedroom filled with what turned out to be methamphetamine smoke, according to a press release from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.”

“Suspected methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin, along with drug paraphernalia, also were located inside the residence.”

“Test results received Aug. 22 “indicated a positive result for the presence of methamphetamine.”

Aug 19, 2023 Peninsula Daily News

Cantwell conducts fentanyl roundtable in Port Angeles

“Sen. Maria Cantwell heard about the myriad difficulties local officials face in trying to combat the opioid crisis including lack of funding, insufficient personnel, lack of supplies and complicated regulations around providing care to those suffering from opioid-use disorder.”

“We know that there have been 26 people who died in overdoses in 2022 in this county,” Cantwell said at a roundtable discussion with local health, law enforcement and county officials at Peninsula Behavioral Health.

Have long range drug patrols out of Port Angeles been able to create any shortage of fentanyl in the Puget Sound area?

Aug 29, 2023 The News Tribune

Pierce County and the opioid crisis: What data tells us about fentanyl’s local stranglehold

Port Angeles Border Patrol – Newspeople Remain Silent

More here:

Port Angeles Drug War – Fentanyl

Operation Macho Swagger & Port Angeles Heroin

2017

Coast Guard comes home to Heroin at Port Angeles

2015

Cutter Active Returns to Heroin Epidemic After Successful Narcotics Patrol

Press Release Style of News Reporting