Posted on 03/02/2024 1:10:33 AM PST by CFW
(The Center Square) – An Operation Lone Star task force that has seen a number of successes is expanding throughout the state to combat cartel and gang crime, led by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd.
Law enforcement officials from over 30 agencies met for an operational meeting this week to discuss future goals as well as expansion efforts with Texas Border Czar Mike Banks.
The Center Square has reported exclusively on Boyd’s task force operations since the multi-agency initiative was launched in 2022.
Initially, the OLS Task Force involved 20 agencies, including 12 sheriff’s offices, seven city police departments and a county attorney’s task force. Their focus was to identify and block illegal activity heading from the border north to Houston using interstates and county roads, and attempting to hide people, drugs, weapons and contraband in rural, remote areas along the way.
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“Dismantling that organization took Goliad from being in a high-speed pursuit of human smugglers three to five times a week to having not a single bailout in 2023. That's phenomenal. Those are the kind of results that we're looking to keep,” he said, adding that they wanted to expand those efforts to other counties.
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Initial OLS Task Force operations stretch from Kerr County in the Hill Country to the Gulf of Mexico, having now expanded to 30 agencies in over 20 counties with the support of Gov. Greg Abbott and Banks.
Targeted operations will focus in three regions. Operation Lone Star Task Force West will include an initial five counties led by Wilson County Sheriff Jim Stewart.
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“not a single bailout “
A good job .... well ok .... but
what about the damage to the utube channels ...
less high speed chases?
less clown car bail ours ?
come on man .... I’m not kidding ..
did I post this twice?
But…but…but pResident Biden has told us that he cannot do anything without the Republican-controlled house!
He wouldn’t lie to us…would he?
I wish we would stop titling government employees as Russian tyrants.
Sheriff Boyd is my law keeper here in Goliad County.
He started with road signs at all roads entering the County in Spanish detailing the arrest and indictment of all traffickers entering our County. Then with public input and town hall meetings, cartel/smugglers stash house started being raided.
Soon the illegal groups got the message. Don’t enter Goliad County.
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large garrison of Mexican soldiers (at Presidio San Antonio de Béxar) and the then-important Texas port of Copano.
“Sheriff Boyd is my law keeper here in Goliad County.”
You are blessed to have a good sheriff. People fail to understand the importance of a sheriff that believes in America and the Constitution. We have one where I live as well. It is important to research the candidates thoroughly when voting in your county Sheriff election.
I think people don’t understand the County Sheriff is #1 in the county. Not the judge and not the commissioners.
Once they understand this good law enforcement will be provided in their county.
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