Results
Click below to view the 2020 Annual Report!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Operation Our Town total money raised from 2007-2019:
- Over $4.6 million
- Over $3.7 million raised from businesses, organizations, & individuals
- Over $800,000 received from federal grants in 2008-2010
Operation Our Town total money distributed from 2007-2019:
- Over $3.4 million in grants distributed to law enforcement and prevention programs in Blair County:
- Over $2.2 million distributed to law enforcement
- Over $1.1 million distributed to prevention programs
Click here – View 2019 Prevention Grant Recipients
Special Operations conducted in 2019:
- 108 new drug cases were started in Blair County
- 209 drug purchases were made (54% of these purchases were for methamphetamine)
- 44 drug related search warrants and buy-busts
- 139 arrests of subjects who possessed, possessed with the intent to deliver, or delivered a controlled substance
Drug overdose deaths
31 drug overdose deaths in 2019.
Push Out the Pusher Drug Hotline Calls received in 2019: (814-693-3020)
259 – Voicemail
239 – Live calls answered at 911 Center
498 – Total calls
Drug/Criminal Prosecutions in 2019
Drug Prosecutor position in the Blair County District Attorney’s Office funded through an annual grant from Operation Our Town:
- Attorney Katelyn Hoover is the current Drug Prosecutor
- Approximately 266 felony drug cases were assigned between the Drug Prosecutor position and the First Assistant
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