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This assessment is an outgrowth of a partnership between the NDIC and HIDTA Program for preparation of annual assessments depicting drug trafficking trends and developments in HIDTA Program areas. The report has been vetted with the HIDTA, is limited in scope to HIDTA jurisdictional boundaries, and draws upon a wide variety of sources within those boundaries.
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Strategic Drug Threat Developments
Drug Trafficking Organizations
Figure 1. Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
Figure 2. Methamphetamine laboratory seizures in Rocky Mountain HIDTA States, 2002-2006.
This assessment provides a strategic overview of the illicit drug situation in the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), highlighting significant trends and law enforcement concerns related to the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs. The report was prepared through detailed analysis of recent law enforcement reporting, information obtained through interviews with law enforcement and public health officials, and available statistical data. The report is designed to provide policymakers, resource planners, and law enforcement officials with a focused discussion of key drug issues and developments facing the Rocky Mountain HIDTA.
Figure 1. Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
Map showing the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
The population of Denver is over 500,000; Aurora and Colorado Springs have populations between 250,000 and 499,999; Salt Lake City, West Valley City, and Provo, Utah, and Fort Collins, Westminster, Arvada, Lakewood, and Pueblo, Colorado have populations between 100,000 and 249,000. Ogden, Utah; Greeley, Colorado; Green River, Rock Springs, and Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Billings, Great Falls, and Helena, Montana are cities of interest.
The Ports of Entry along the Montana-Canada border are, from west to east, Roosville, Trail Creek, Chief Mountain, Piegan, Del Bonita, Sweetgrass, Whitlash, Wild Horse, Willow Creek, Turner, Morgan, Opheim, Scobey, Whitetail, and Raymond.
The Indian Reservations are Blackfeet, Flathead, Rocky Boys, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Northern Cheyenne, and Crow in Montana; Wind River in Wyoming; Goshute, Skull Valley, Uintah & Ouray, and Navajo in Utah; and Ute Mountain and Southern Ute in Colorado.
Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, have international Airports.
The interstates in this area include I-15, I-25, I-70, I-76, I-80, I-84, I-90, and I-94.
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