drug trafficking

Approximately 40 people with connections to multiple states and Mexico were arrested Tuesday after a four-year federal investigation exposed multiple drug trafficking operations in east Mississippi, federal prosecutors announced. The suspects include at least one person in Alabama.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville led a congressional delegation over the weekend to U.S. Southern Command in Miami and various sites in Panama to meet with military leaders, diplomatic officials, and trade experts about securing America’s southern border, countering China’s growing influence in the region, and stopping human trafficking and drug smuggling.

Alabama’s Central Data Repository says over sixteen thousand Alabama residents were treated for substance abuse in 2021. Close to two thousand of those were in Baldwin County. Limited resources also make recovery even harder in south Alabama. Most of the leaders in local recovery have been there themselves.

Gov. Robert Bentley has awarded the Shelby County Commission nearly $140,000 to fight drug trafficking. The money will be given to the Shelby County Drug…