New HIDTAs added by Office of National Drug Control Policy

The Office of National Drug Control Policy has announced the designation of ten new areas across Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and West Virginia as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs). This designation enables the 10 areas to receive Federal resources to further the coordination and development of drug control efforts among Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers, and allows local agencies to benefit from ongoing HIDTA initiatives that are working to reduce drug trafficking across the United States. Financial institutions also take HIDTAs into account in their periodic assessments of money laundering risk. The added areas include:

• Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington Counties in Pennsylvania as part of the Ohio HIDTA
• Atlantic County in New Jersey as part of the Liberty Mid-Atlantic HIDTA
• Butler County in Ohio as part of the Ohio HIDTA
• Charleston County in South Carolina and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina as part of the Atlanta/Carolinas HIDTA
• Mineral County in West Virginia as part of the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA
• Montgomery and Powell Counties in Kentucky as part of the Appalachia HIDTA