Virginia joins the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Heroin Task Force

There are currently federal task forces on Hampton Roads, but Virginia’s Attorney General had been a driving force to get local police to work with federal agencies o larger criminal investigations.    

There has been 729 recorded heroin and opiod related deaths according to the Office of the Medical Examiner. That number is up from 661 in 2013 and 541 in 2012.

There are currently federal task forces on Hampton Roads, but Virginia’s Attorney General has been a driving force to get local police to work with federal agencies on larger criminal investigations.

Local Virginia police departments are looking to communicate with departments from other states to address this epidemic.

Major Bryan Lewis, fro the Chincoteague Police Department says, “Things tend to migrate either south or north so at times if a drug  heroin is an outbreak in Delaware you will eventually see it in Maryland and travel on down to Virginia as well. The only thing that is being asked to share the information so everything can be tied together on any trafficking…it helps build a better case where it’s originating  from where it’s going.”