HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas—The courts are “failing” in West Texas, Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West says.
Law enforcement is apprehending drugs every day in his county, which borders Mexico, but West says his deputies are tired of repeatedly arresting the same people.
“When I get on the deputies about, ‘Y’all need to stop this crap,’” the sheriff says his deputies respond: “Why? They’re not going to do anything to them,” referring to the courts’ lack of prosecution.
Sitting at the Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association’s March meeting, West told The Daily Signal he is worried about the “fentanyl and harsher drugs” coming across the border and flowing through his county, adding that someone in his community died of fentanyl poisoning just a week and a half ago.
“We arrest some of these local dealers that are…
