Seattle
In the news:
Mar 19, 2024 Capitol Hill Seattle Blog
“The city says new efforts like those around buprenorphine must be paired with increased services and facilities. CHS reported here on King County’s plan to open new treatment facilities, and relaunch the Seattle sobering center to take on the soaring fentanyl crisis.”
“The city says the Seattle Fire Department and Health 99 respond to more than 100 patients each week experiencing an overdose. In 2023, officials say 735 people died of drug overdoses in Seattle. Fentanyl related overdoses are a core driver of the increase. In 2022, CHS reported on growing but challenged efforts to make fentanyl test strips more widely available.”
April 16, 2023 The Seattle Times
How fentanyl became Seattle’s most urgent public health crisis
“It is the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced,” Anne Milgram, who heads the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said earlier this year in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Real newspeople and some Americans may ask:
Would the DEA be out of work if a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security was able to keep cartel product from showing up in all 50 states?
Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?
How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?
Port Angeles CBP/Homeland Security
Urban legend: The US Border Patrol stopped the Millennium Bomber at Port Angeles-
Ahmed Ressam was captured at the traditional port of entry at Port Angeles by Customs Inspectors wearing blue uniforms- not by Border Patrol Agents wearing green uniforms.
Dec 17, 2029 Peninsula Daily News
Terrorist plot stopped in Port Angeles 20 years ago
“Two decades have passed since U.S. Customs inspectors in Port Angeles foiled a terrorist’s plot to kill and injure as many Americans as possible by blowing up a passenger terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.”
“…he debarked from the MV Coho ferry driving a rental car filled with highly-volatile explosives.”
How many US Border Patrol agents were stationed at Port Angeles in 1999?
Pre-911 staffing levels got the job done.
Port Angeles – Post 911 Spending Spree
On March 1, 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established. This opened the door for a CBP spending spree at Port Angeles.
2011 – Operation Macho Swagger & Port Angeles Heroin
Newspeople play the role of federal public affairs personnel during Operation Macho Swagger– a ride-along to let us know what is being done to keep the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca safe from B.C. incursions.
July 17, 2011 Peninsula Daily News
Fast boats put agents in close distance with ‘bad guys’ on the watery border
“Marine Interdiction Agent Adam Connerton zigzagged the 1,200-horsepower Border Patrol Interceptor behind the boat he and his crew were chasing.”
More here: Operation Macho Swagger & Port Angeles Heroin
2012 – Expanding local staff to 42 US Border Patrol Agents
Feb 6, 2012 Everett Herald
New border patrol agent in charge at Port Angeles
“Cumbow oversees a force that has grown from four Border Patrol agents in 2006 to 42 under the Department of Homeland Security. In April they are scheduled to move from the federal building in downtown Port Angeles to a headquarters remodeled at cost of nearly $6 million.”
“The agents are responsible for Clallam and Jefferson counties. Additional agents with the Office of Air and Marine operate out of Port of Port Angeles and other agents from the Office of Field Operations monitor the U.S. port of entry at the Port Angeles ferry dock. All three agencies operate under the administrative umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”
Sept 16, 2012 Peninsula Daily News
Border Patrol cuts ribbon for new $11.9 million facility in Port Angeles
“The Border Patrol celebrated the grand opening of its fenced, sprawling headquarters, an expanded facility for its 42 agents, to the plaintive strains of a bagpipe and an appreciative reaction from a crowd of invitation-only guests.”
Today
Is massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca at all relevant in keeping drug overdoses down in Clallam County?
Newspeople play along by not asking questions.
If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:
More Than A Decade Of Efforts To Take Control
After a Port Angeles CBP buildup that took place more than a decade ago, is there any follow up made by the press to inform the public on whatever results have been achieved? Any interviews with top level CBP personnel or elected officials?
Zero questions from small or large newspapers? Zero questions from TV newspeople?
Love to see newspeople ask:
Does Port Angeles CBP provide any advantage in keeping cartel product from arriving in Seattle?
Is Port Angeles CBP able to keep cartel product from arriving in Port Angeles?
Zero questions here on the advantage of significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol forces at Port Angeles:
Aug 22, 2023 Sequim Gazette
Cantwell conducts fentanyl roundtable in Port Angeles
“In general we think that the I-5 corridor has put our state in the epicenter of increases in the amount of fentanyl being trafficked,” Cantwell said.
Port Angeles
Local people find drugs and report to local (not federal) law enforcement authorities. Federal employees create news story and say that federal agents used a K-9 to “seize” the drugs.
Question for CBP:
Why does the news story created by CBP not line up with local reports?
Question for mainstream newspeople:
If Port Angeles US Border Patrol agents used a K-9 to seize a significant amount of methamphetamine on April 11, why did federal agents not take over the investigation until May 3rd, three weeks later?
Mainstream newspeople remain silent.
May 3, 2021 Peninsula Daily News
Feds take over investigation after $7 million in drugs found
“Federal authorities have taken over the investigation into the early April discovery of 400 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine worth $7 million on a Joyce-area beach after no local-area connection with the drugs was established, according to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.”
News links and Sheriff’s Dept. Facebook post here:
Port Angeles Border Patrol – Investigation Stalled For 3 Weeks?
Original blog post:
Port Angeles Border Patrol Agents Seize Meth?
More here:
December 7, 2022 United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington
More than 400 pounds of methamphetamine and two pounds of fentanyl powder show up on a beach near Port Angeles. Local CBP fails to keep product from entering Clallam County. How did this meth and fentanyl enter the US?
Zero questions from newspeople.
“On April 7, 2021, beachcombers near Port Angeles reported a black duffel bag with drugs inside. The Clallam County Sheriff’s office took possession of the bag found to contain 2 pounds of fentanyl powder and nearly 60 pounds of methamphetamine. The fentanyl powder was originally believed to be cocaine. Just days later, on April 11, 2021, a different beach walker reported another find – seven more duffel bags containing 342 pounds of methamphetamine. The Sheriff’s Office estimated the street value of the drugs as nearly $7 million.”
Related:
Port Angeles – Homeland Security/Drug War Scam 2011- 2024
Photo:
Symbol of an American society where newspeople avoid asking questions.