Law enforcement takes drug fight to the highways

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By Matt Elofson


Officer Chris Craft spotted bad brake lights on a Chevrolet Yukon. Moments later, he arrested three men on marijuana charges.

The Ozark officer seized about half a pound of marijuana during the September traffic stop that landed 24-year-old Miles Ansley and two passengers in jail on drug charges.

Two months later, police charged three men with shooting Ansley to death during what police called a robbery motivated by drugs.

Ozark Deputy Police Chief Myron Williams said there is a clear link between drugs and violent crime. It is a link he feels can be broken, or at least deterred, through the use of highway interdiction.

“The reason I wanted to get the program started is to capture the drugs before they reach the street level and to go after the money to take the profit out of it,â€