
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 8, 1991                   TAG: 9102080749
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: EVENING 
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POLICE GET ASSETS FROM DRUG ARRESTS

The Roanoke Police Department recently received a check for $13,466.25 - its share of assets seized in drug arrests over the past year.

The check recently was presented to Police Chief David Hooper from Montgomery Tucker, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia.

The money came from combined efforts by federal, state and city authorities to stem the flow of drugs in Roanoke.

Much of the money and property seized has come from arrests and raids aimed at dealers of crack cocaine. Since the highly addictive drug infiltrated Roanoke about three years ago, Roanoke police have made hundreds of arrests.

Police said the money will be used in "further efforts" aimed at drug trafficking.

The police department's share from the seizures came from the federal government. It was unrelated to an amendment to the state Constitution approved in November that allows assets from drug raids to go toward law enforcement instead of the state Literary Fund.

by CNB