State Police Announce 2021 Drug Enforcement Numbers

The Illinois State Police is touting its drug enforcement efforts last year.  State Police Director Brendan Kelly announced yesterday that troopers recovered illegal drugs valued at around 71-million-dollars in 2021.  Agents made more than 22-hundred seizures of illegally possessed cannabis, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, fentanyl, heroin, LSD, meth, and other dangerous drugs.  That resulted in more than 800 arrests.