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U.S. Attorney: Arrests, drug seizures show Project Safe Neighborhoods is working

Originally published in the 10/19/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News.  

BILLINGS — In the past six months, law enforcement officers have charged 105 persons in federal and state court, seized 160 pounds of methamphetamine and confiscated 52 firearms from the Yellowstone County community as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program to reduce violent crime through a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort.

On Tuesday, the Montana U.S. Attorney’s office held a press conference to explain the program and its success so far. PSN is a reinvigorated U.S. Department of Justice read more