By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The Barren River Drug Task Force received a federal grant in the sum of $114,545 to “fight drug trafficking and continue building a safer New Kentucky Home,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced recently.
The grant comes from the Edward J. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. In total, Kentucky was allotted $1.4 million that was given to nine state and local agencies, according to a governor’s office press release. The grant funds can be used “to purchase critical resources, provide drug prevention programming to community residents, offer counseling to crime victims, ensure officers receive specialized training, and work with individuals leaving incarceration for successful reentry skills,” the release stated.
“Without the Byrne Jag funding, we could not fight the drug battles that we are in today,” said Barren River Drug Task Force Director Ron Lafferty. “We are seizing record numbers of crystal meth, cocaine and fentanyl like we have never seen before, and it would not be possible without the Byrne JAG funding.”
The Barren River Drug Task Force covers Barren and Metcalfe counties.
As previously reported, Lafferty said the mission of the task force was to “go after the people who get the drugs into people’s hands.”
The $114,545 amount was the same they received in 2023.
