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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