POMONA : Law Enforcement Agencies Get Confiscated Drug Funds
Pomona police and the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force on Wednesday received nearly $3 million in laundered drug money under a state law that will expire next year.
Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner, with Pomona Police Chief Lloyd Wood, urged state legislators to extend the 1988 forfeiture law. The law, which expires Dec. 31, 1993, allows money seized in drug raids to be given to law enforcement agencies. The task force consists of officers from most law enforcement agencies in the county.
Reiner said his office distributes an average of $14 million yearly to such agencies. The $3-million distribution came from an April raid of an El Monte money-laundering center, discovered after a Pomona drug bust.
“This money comes from the drug dealers, not the taxpayers, and it goes back to fight the drug dealers,” Reiner said.
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