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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Highway Patrol is on pace to surpass the number of drug busts it made in the past year.
UHP officers have made 53 drug seizures so far this year. If that pace continues, officers will likely make 212 busts in 2009, 78 more than last year.
About 80 troopers and 15 part-time crime interdiction team members patrol the state along heavily trafficked drug routes, such as Interstates 80, 70 and 15.
The interdiction team's supplies and overtime are funded each year through a High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area federal grant. The grant is worth about $150,000 and helps pay for several multiple-day drug saturation sweeps each year on Utah's interstates.
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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