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My current event was on a trooper whos beating the record for most drug bust. Heres the link :

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/03/23/story-granville-trooper-sets-arrest-record-michael-wilson.html?sid=102



GRANVILLE, Ohio — Consider Trooper Michael Wilson the Ohio State Highway Patrol's heavyweight champion of felony arrests.

In 2010, none of the other 1,400 troopers in the state made more arrests than Wilson.  His total of 86 was not only the best in Ohio, but it was also a state record, 10TV's Kevin Landers reported on Tuesday.

Wilson, who works out of the patrol's Granville post, has an eye for catching suspected drug dealers.  Part of the challenge, he says, is being aware that people will hide drugs almost anywhere.

"It's very common to stop a vehicle with kids in it," Wilson said.  "One of my stops last year for a drug seizure was underneath a kid's car seat."

Wilson often patrols along Interstate 70 in Licking County, an area he referred to as part of the drug "pipeline."

"Heroin is very big right now," Wilson said, "Heroin out of Columbus going to smaller cities."

Last year, Wilson was responsible for seizing six pounds of marijuana, guns, knives, more than 1,000 prescription pills, and 1 pound of cocaine, Landers reported.

The drugs, he said, were being transported by people of all ages.

"It's everybody, there's not an age group," he said.  "There's not one age group I've arrested; 65-year-old men trafficking in cocaine."

Not every person arrested by Wilson goes to prison.  Some judges allow them to work off their time by providing information about suspected drug dealers to law enforcement, Landers reported.

"One of the alternatives if they have, say good information, can possibly be working off their charge by say, giving up a bigger drug dealer," Wilson said.

Of Wilson's 86 arrests in 2010, 79 were drug cases.  He hopes that he can break the record in 2011 and take more drugs off the roads.

"I definitely want bigger drugs taken off the street," he said.

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