People are angry that $100,000 has gone missing from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s drug office in North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County.
Police are looking into the office’s actions after finding $100,000 in unaccounted for drug seizures and buy money.
There is a plain gray block house on Route 30 in North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County. This is where the Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control of the Pennsylvania Attorney General is located.
This is what the Attorney General’s website says: “one of the largest agencies in the nation devoted exclusively to drug enforcement.”
They are now looking into this office for possible illegal activity after more than $100,000 in drug buy and forfeiture money went missing.
The Attorney General’s office found the stolen money at the beginning of this year.
There is at least $77,000 in drug forfeiture money from drug dealers in Western Pennsylvania and at least $24,000 in controlled drug buy funds in it.
Undercover drug operations use that money to buy illegal drugs and find criminals in western Pennsylvania.
Sources say that only a few people who work in this building had access to that money.
Also, sources say it’s not clear why the office had $77,000 in drug seizure money.
They told me to put that much money in the bank, write a check for it, and then give it to the Asset Forfeiture department in Harrisburg.
Sources in law enforcement say that the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office now has all the information it needs about the lost money.