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Friday, October 26, 2007
Gwinnett gets full-time drug prosecutor
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
District Attorney Danny Porter last week hired the county’s first lawyer who will exclusively prosecute drug cases.
Porter hired the attorney, Michael Smith, with $120,000 in federal, state and local grant funding from the Atlanta High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
HIDTA, as the program is called, funds drug case task forces, training and “prosecution initiatives,” according to a news release from the county communications office.
“[Smith] is a former state prosecutor from Florida who was assigned to the U.S. attorney’s office as a money laundering expert,” Porter said. “He has been a prosecutor for more than 15 years and has prosecuted complex drug conspiracy and money laundering cases both in federal and state court.”
U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, chairman of the HIDTA board, said hiring Smith “is an important part of our collaborative effort to address the scourge of drug trafficking in the metropolitan Atlanta area.”
“We’re grateful to the Gwinnett County Commission, Commission Chairman Charles Bannister and District Attorney Danny Porter for helping create this new position,” Nahmias said.
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