[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 26 (Thursday, March 9, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H762]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




A GREAT VICTORY FOR JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, IN ELIMINATING THE SCOURGE 
                            OF ILLEGAL DRUGS

  (Mr. WALDEN of Oregon asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend the 
efforts of law enforcement officers in Jackson County, Oregon. 
Yesterday, 110 law enforcement officers from the FBI, Drug Enforcement 
Agency, IRS, INS, the Social Security Administration and the Jackson 
County Narcotics Enforcement Team, also called Jacnet, shut down a drug 
ring that was thought to supply 90 percent of the area's heroin and 
most of its methamphetamines.
  Nineteen people were arrested; 28 houses and vehicles were searched 
in this early morning bust.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a great victory for the work to protect our 
communities from the scourge of illegal narcotics, and I congratulate 
the law enforcement personnel who were involved.
  The bust is also a great victory for cooperative collaborative 
counter-drug efforts. Jacnet is itself made up of people of the Jackson 
County Sheriff's Office, the Oregon State Police, Medford and Central 
Point Police Departments, and the Oregon National Guard. Add Federal 
agencies and we have all levels of government working together to fight 
drugs, and it works.
  That is why I am working to increase funding for the federally-
designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, including Jackson 
County.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a program that works, and I intend to keep 
pursuing it. I congratulate those law enforcement agencies that were 
involved in making our communities safer.

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