WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The effort to fight drug-trafficking involves not only Winston-Salem police, but every agency in Forsyth County.
Together, the Winston-Salem Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, Kernersville Police Police Department joined all their narcotics divisions to form a task force to tackle drug trafficking.
Captain George Jenkins says the task force works to chop off the snake’s head by finding the drug traffickers before the drugs make it to the streets, but the operations are more sophisticated, and more methamphetamine and fentanyl are in the county than ever before.
“Drugs are not made in Forsyth County. Drugs are not made in Winston-Salem,” Jenkins said.
Jenkins says two drugs of choice are most commonly trafficked into the Triad: methamphetamine and fentanyl.
While the Forsyth County Drug Task Force has been able to combine its resources locally, they also rely on federal and state support since the drugs are coming in from abroad.
“10, 20 years ago, meth was being made in someone’s back yard. Now meth is coming straight from across the border. When I say from across the border, coming from Mexico. And the precursors for fentanyl … it’s known, are made in China,” Jenkins said.