By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The Chehalis Police Department has contributed a detective to a regional drug task force that has been taking shape since earlier this year in Lewis County.
A detective from the sheriff’s office has been working with the team at the Centralia Police Department which is led by a sergeant there, with two Centralia detectives.
It’s been named the Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team and year to date has already made 100 arrests and served 35 search warrants, according to Chehalis Police Chief Glenn Schaffer.
Its sole task is to go after drug dealers at every level, Schaffer told the Chehalis City Council this evening.
The police chief said regional teams for both drugs and SWAT in Lewis County are visions incoming Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza had when he took office in January.
Last month, Chehalis assigned a detective to the drug group, he said.
The police chief said that during his tenure, he’s seen cooperative efforts to varying degrees, with combined teams and with individual teams among police agencies in the county.
“At no time have I seen the three working together in such an organized fashion as I do now,” he said.
In just the one month Chehalis has been a part of JNET, the team has made 16 felony arrests and served eight search warrants, he said.
The Lewis County Regional SWAT team has 15 members, and is headed up by Lewis County Undersheriff Wes Rethwill.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
If you Poisson our kids with any of your crap,prison is the only place for ya…I bet your liberal ass thinks tax payers should pay for that to?? I pick prison. Then our town will be less scummy. 1doper at a time ..
In reading this article, I see nothing about what is to occur upon arrest. The rest of our country is moving toward dealing with drug users, which includes dealers since most users sell drugs in some amount large and small, by attempting to secure some type of treatment for them. Prison or jail do not have adequate treatment and in most cases, no treatment. Europe has had much success with dealing with opioid addiction. It is a shame we Americans are unwilling to learn from others who have had success.
Is this “task force” geared toward merely the arrest of any person caught exchanging drugs for money? Is marijuana included? If so, that means the country has moved backwards at least 20 years into an era, every other county is attempting to move away from. The “war on drugs” is over in most places. Does Lewis County have the resources (money and facilities) for increased Drug Court and treatment as well as jobs/housing connections for those arrested. Or are they merely spending the money on jail, courts, and salaries for those on the “task force”, thereby enhancing the system only. These people are arrested, go to jail, let out in a few weeks or months, or even a year or so and then what? This is an old, old, story nation wide. Is this just another verse? Why do we keep doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. This sounds like it will become pretty expensive for the county. Unless of course the purpose is to merely jail drug users for awhile and hope they miraculously recover.
Ha. Tweek tweek. Kindoffunny right?
I am quite naïve. I first hear the expression “tweaker” when I moved to Lewis County. I thought it was a local expression for a person who uses meth, but I guess that it’s use goes beyond Lewis County.
The Urban Dictionary:
Also: Tweek
1. Person who constantly stays up cleaning, washing, organizing, powertooling, sorting or otherwise keeping themself busy doing menial tasks.
2. Someone who constantly makes slight alterations on (usually a very specific) object, i.e. computer, software, automobile, etc.
3. A compulsive liar, thief, or both.
4. A methamphetamine (“tweak”), or other form of speed, addict (who displays all of the above in an obsessive-compulsive manner).
Sounds like more propaganda which will come to nothing. The meth, coke, and heroin people are pretty securely entrenched in Lewis County. Law enforcement knows most of them. They will make a high profile bust or two every year to justify their jobs. A couple of months later most of the charges will be quietly dropped.
I think that they would need good undercover cops to get the needed evidence on these people. That would be easier in the big city than Lewis County where everyone knows each other. That’s why most of these arrests, except for possession, just don’t make it to court.
Great news!! Hopefully this will also help the overall crime rate to fall.
That’s sad this tweaker can spell better than you lol!
Don’t you mean “tweaker” lmao.!
How can people contact this unit?
“At no time have I seen the three working together in such an organized fashion as I do now,” he said.
Geez maybe working together in everything our county officials did would promote a better use of our tax dollars. Who’s idea was it to work together in the first place.? Now if the police would just work together with the community by wearing body cameras and installing dash cameras we might have a real police department. Until this change is made the people only view the police as a criminal gang enforcing the drugs our Government imports in CIA Aircraft. Like the heroine our military troops protect in the middle east. Dont think its true, look it up Cia plane crashes with 6 tons of cocaine on board. Or just type in military protecting poppy fields. The war on drugs is a war on the people. Just look up Freeway Rick Ross…. Our Government wants it here to fund private prisons. Gotta love the open border program too. You want to fight the war on drugs start at the open border Mr Sheriff.
Sweet. Go get those tweekers.