Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson shares with WFMY the sordid goods passing through Alamance County along I-40/85:
“We are a high intensity drug area,” Johnson said.
Friday afternoon, Johnson showed WFMY News 2’s Hope Ford dozens of images, depicting million dollar drug and firearm stings as well as cartel-related homicides in Alamance County.
“We are talking 130, 150, 180 pounds of cocaine, thousands of pounds of marijuana, black tar heroin.”
Interstates 85 and 40 making the county a prime transportation spot for trafficking. That not counting the dozens of smaller, connected highways.
Johnson explained, “When the heat is on the main interstates, they take to these smaller highways to bring their product to other parts across the nation.”
Johnson recently attended the 2015 Sheriff Border Summit in McAllen, Texas, saying his first time to the border “was certainly an eye-opening experience for me…..we have the same problems here in Alamance County, just on a smaller scale.” Geez.
