The Nation - News from July 18, 1989
Members of a task force designed to get “career drug criminals” off the streets have arrested 456 people, including 25 charged with murder, officials said. The U.S. Marshals Service led the Street Terror Offender Program, or STOP, aimed at fugitives in the Washington-Baltimore area sought in drug-related homicides or on other drug charges. Local police from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia also participated. The $1.3-million federal program began May 22. U.S. Marshals Service Director Stanley E. Morris said about 62% of those sought were considered armed and dangerous, but that all arrests were made without a shot being fired.
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