ELKINS, W.Va. –Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District, Randolph Bernard, took time Wednesday to applaud the efforts of the drug task forces in the district for continuing to take down drug operations across the state.

The northern district is currently made up nine different drug task forces, including the Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, the Mon Metro Drug Task Force, the Eastern Panhandle Drug Task Force, the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force, the Greater Harrison Drug Task Force, the Potomac Highlands Drug Task Force, the Mountain Region Drug Task Force, the Marshall County Drug Task Force, and the Three Rivers Drug Task Force.

Bernard said that in the past year, the task forces have helped seize more than 27 kilograms of fentanyl, 22 kilograms of methamphetamine, an

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