| Drug Situation:
Historically, the mid-Atlantic region has served as a
thoroughfare for drugs, drug-related proceeds, weapons and other contraband
traveling along the east coast of the United States.
Virginia cities situated along Interstate-95 are
vulnerable to "spillover" drug distribution from traffickers moving between the
two major eastern drug importation hubs of New York City and Miami.
Cocaine, crack cocaine and the violence attendant with
the trafficking of these drugs are the most significant drug problem in the
state, according to most law enforcement sources.
However, MDMA abuse and distribution is an already
large and still-growing problem, seizures of clandestine methamphetamine
laboratories increase every year, and Mexican trafficking organizations are
making enormous inroads in the cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana
distribution markets in nearly every part of the state. |
