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In the metropolitan regions of Dallas and Fort Worth, crack cocaine is still popular and easily accessible. The Dallas metropolitan region is the primary distribution point for crack to outlying regions in North Texas and Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Crack is easily accessible throughout the Houston Division, and is domestically produced.
There is more than enough accessibility of crack cocaine in El Paso, where its consumption is viewed as low to moderate. In Midland, Texas, crack cocaine consumption and distribution is at a level that is viewed as perilous to the quality of life. The crack cocaine abuse is a main concern to local and federal law enforcement agencies in the Midland/Odessa area. Crack cocaine is easily accessible throughout New Mexico, but is most common in urban regions. Most of the crack accessible derives from powder cocaine distributed by MDTOs to domestic crack distributors who then transform the powder cocaine into crack.
Ethnic gangs are the main suppliers of crack cocaine in urban areas. Crack poses the biggest threat to school kids, as street level distributors can be encountered in all social and economic levels of the community. The high level of violence related to crack cocaine smugglers is of special concern.
Mexican black tar heroin continues to be the main heroin threat in north Texas. This type of heroin is easily accessible in north Texas. According to intelligence, the larger Dallas Fort Worth region is a distribution point for Mexican black tar heroin transported to the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern America. The general heroin purity level for the Dallas Field Division has eventually dropped for four straight quarters, from a high of 67 percent to 15 percent in the first quarter of 2007.
Mexican black tar and brown heroin are commonly apprehended in south Texas. In recent years, the Houston Field Division has been detected as a transshipment point for kilogram amounts of Colombian heroin routed for the east coast. Small amounts of Asian heroin are intermittently found in south Texas, trafficked in through courier or apprehended from the mail. Within the past year, there has been a notable rise in Mexican heroin’s accessibility and purity level in south Texas. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are regularly apprehended at the POEs in El Paso County. Black tar heroin has long been accessible in this region from sources in the Mexican States of Durango and Chihuahua. Heroin is most frequently smuggled in concealed compartments in private vehicles and hidden on persons. The heroin is generally carried across the border by couriers, but there is a growing trend of heroin distributors going across the border with their supply. Heroin accessibility has reflected a consistent rise over the last five years as proven by the rise in kilogram apprehensions and a consistent decline in cost. Enforcement operations have substantially interfered with the accessibility of street level amounts of heroin in the area and briefly lowered the amount of overdoses and overdose deaths. However, partially because heroin consumption is socially and culturally accepted in the region, the heroin problem constantly reappears.
Accessibility of meth continues to be high in north Texas, and the pace of enforcement operations surrounding meth is still escalating. Mexican manufactured meth presently controls the market in the Dallas Field Division. New laws in Texas restricting the purchase of pseudoephedrine products became effective in late 2005, causing a 73 percent decline in clandestine lab apprehensions in the Dallas Field Division. The majority of the Mexican manufactured meth shipped to the region derives from Mexico, California, and Arizona via traditional methods, including passenger and commercial vehicles.
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