The Montana Division of Criminal Investigations says that for the first three-quarters of 2024, over 250,000 drug dosage units were seized by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in Montana, which is down from the same period in 2023.
“It really doesn’t feel that way on the street. A thousand pills was a big deal to seize to where we’re [now] seeing 10,000 and higher than that,” said Steven Crawford, the chief of the Narcotics Bureau for the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation through the Department of Justice.
He has agents within the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) .
He says the top threats for his bureau are methamphetamine and fentanyl, and they are seeing a rise in cocaine…