CONROE, Texas – A weeklong law enforcement operation targeting wanted criminals in Montgomery County landed 71 people behind bars, Conroe police announced on Tuesday.

The operation, led by the U.S. Marshals Service and Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force, lasted for a week in early August.

Law enforcement tried to execute 149 warrants, Chief Jon Buckholtz said, but ended up executing 91, or about 60 percent, of them.

“When I came here, it was quite obvious that we had a lot of outstanding warrants. Our clearance rate was not where we would like it to be for our citizens,” Buckholtz said.

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He has been on the job for about six months as chief and recently created a crime reduction unit, which

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