Outlook

The roles of Dallas/Fort Worth and Oklahoma City in regional and national drug transportation and distribution will quite likely increase. The establishment of multiple operational cells in these cities by Mexican DTOs and the expansion of Mexican distribution networks into new markets across the United States will most likely result in increased drug distribution, transshipment, and transportation to and through the North Texas HIDTA region.

The threat posed by ice methamphetamine could increase in the North Texas HIDTA region. Mexican DTOs will increase the amounts of Mexican ice methamphetamine that they supply to the local market to meet the growing demand for the drug and to offset the continued decline in local production.

The increasing trend toward polydrug distribution in Dallas/Fort Worth and Oklahoma City will most likely result in the emergence of new drug abuse problems. Low-income areas may be hardest hit as local distributors, who are becoming polydrug in nature, introduce different drugs such as ice methamphetamine, heroin, and MDMA to new abusers in these areas.

Law enforcement officers in the North Texas HIDTA region may begin to encounter Asian DTOs that distribute ice methamphetamine. This trend has been documented throughout the United States and may emerge locally, primarily within Asian communities. Asian DTOs will most likely obtain ice methamphetamine from local Mexican suppliers or from sources in Canada and transport the drug to the region for local distribution.

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