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'Operation Strike Force' a success
Posted: 03.27.2009 at 4:27 PM
Tonya Brown

Tonya has been reporting stories happening in the Pee Dee for more than 10 years.

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A four-day sting on Interstates 95 and 20 in Florence County has yielded one of the state's largest heroin busts.

Friday morning, police laid out all the drugs, cash, pills and counterfeit goods seized during Operation Strike Force.

30 different officers from around the state took part in the operation. The purpose of it was to crack down on interstate crime. This is the fifth year of the operation and Sheriff Kenney Boone says it's one of the most successful ones.

"I think this year's definitely been one of our largest seizures as far as the drugs and the money's concerning with the heroin seizure we got over ten pounds with a street value of seven million dollars," said Sheriff Kenney Boone.

Police say they arrested 67 people during the four day operation and they stopped more than two-thousand cars.

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