Countywide : D.A.’s Office to Join Anti-Drug Coalition
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office will formally join today a coalition of law enforcement agencies targeting regional drug cartels, the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.
The Supervisors voted unanimously to allow the district attorney’s office to devote a full-time employee to the Inland Crackdown Allied (INCA) Task Force, a network of federal, state and local agencies.
The Riverside-based INCA is the largest and most successful of the state’s half-dozen such task forces, created by state lawmakers in 1991 and run by the State Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement.
The Riverside operation invited the Orange County prosecutors office to join forces because one-third of INCA’s cases have been tried in the county, said bureau special agent Edward Synicky. The Brea Police Department is the only other Orange County representative among the 12-agency INCA coalition.
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