PORT JERVIS – The City of Port Jervis is literally at the point where northern New Jersey, northeastern Pennsylvania, and New York meet. And that has been causing a problem with the trafficking of large volumes of heroin and cocaine.
Port Jervis Police Chief William Worden says law enforcement from all three states are working together to address the problem.
“Over the past 10 to 15 years we started to see a marked increase large-scale trafficking in the tri-state region, originating around the City of Port Jervis and what we have done to fight that on an interstate level is to build partnerships between prosecutors and law enforcement agencies from the federal, state, and local level in all three states. And we basically share information, share intelligence, and we attack it,” he said.
Worden said much of the large-scale drug trafficking is coming up from New Jersey’s cities of Paterson and Newark and New York City.
