BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Since its reinstatement in 2024 the Drug Task Force has removed more drugs than they have ever seen before according to Sheriff Youngblood. They are on a mission to remove all the drugs in the streets.

In the past 18 months the Sheriff's Office says it's made many more drug arrests and taken many more drugs off our streets. The sheriff says the drugs are now being made here, instead of being brought in from elsewhere. Bringing back a special team has helped clean our streets and keep our neighborhoods safe.

In 2024 Kern County reinstated the Sheriff's Drug Enforcement Unit, after years of it being disbanded in 2008. The Board Of Supervisors authorized close to $500,000 to reinstate it. Since then, Sheriff Donny Youngblood claims deputies have seized an "unpre

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