TAMPA, FL \u2014 During a three-month traffic initiative, 55 people were arrested, Tampa police said in a news release. <\/p>\n
\u201cOperation: Safer Streets\u201d focused on chronic offenders, leading to the recovery of a firearm, fentanyl, cocaine and othaer illegal drugs, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s traumatic for families to see drugs sold in their parks and neighborhoods,\u201d Chief Lee Bercaw said. \u201cThe result of this operation and arrests of these 55 drug dealers clearly disrupted the availability of illegal narcotics in our community. Through our strong partnerships, we are demonstrating our shared commitment to making our city safer for everyone, one block at a time.”<\/p>\n
The initiative was part of a partnership between police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the State Attorney\u2019s Office and the United States Attorney\u2019s Office Middle District of Florida. <\/p>\n
\u201cOperation Safe Streets was a joint collaboration between Tampa Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration,\u201d DEA Tampa District office assistant special agent in charge Todd Cavaliere. \u201cThe goal was to clean up Tampa streets and be free from drug distribution and violence that inevitably accompanies drug markets. Tampa citizens can be assured law enforcement will work together to make their communities safe. DEA is committed to stopping the importation and distribution of narcotics in the United States and continues to push for a Fentanyl Free America.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 During a three-month traffic initiative, 55 people were arrested, Tampa police said in a news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-146409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}