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Sunday defends strike teams and drug task forces as fentanyl, meth and cocaine drive arrests

Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · February 27, 2025
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Attorney General Sunday described three enforcement models—local DA-run task forces, AG-run task forces and statewide strike teams—and said fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine were the top drugs interdicted in 2024; he said funding is largely for salaries and that additional personnel would yield greater enforcement capacity.

At the appropriations hearing, Representative Brown and others pressed Attorney General Dave Sunday about the governor's proposed increase for drug-law enforcement. Sunday told the committee the office uses three principal enforcement structures: local district-attorney-run drug task forces, AG-run drug task forces and statewide strike teams that deploy…

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