GOSHEN- The Multi-agency Orange County Drug Task Force has completed its 10th year with “resounding success,” said District Attorney David Hoovler.
He said since its success, the task force has been responsible for countless successful investigations, resulting in the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of several high-level narcotics and firearms traffickers.
In 2024 and 2025, as part of ongoing investigations, the task force conducted controlled purchases of approximately 15 kilos of narcotics including cocaine, fentanyl and heroin.
The task force has also focused on the flow of illegally possessed firearms into and through the county.
Hoovler said those guns are the tools of the trade for drug dealers and are often used in violent crimes in the county.
The county has seen a 155 percent year-over-year recovery of those illegal firearms.
In 2024, it made 46 arrests compared with 47 in 2025. It recovered 31 firearms in 2024 compared with 79 last year, and seized vehicles totaled 23 in 2024, compared with five in 2025.
The task force is comprised of officers from the following departments:
- City of Middletown Police Department
- City of Newburgh Police Department
- City of Port Jervis Police Department
- Town of Deerpark Police Department
- Town of Goshen Police Department
- Town of Montgomery Police Department
- Town of New Windsor Police Department
- Town of Newburgh Police Department
- Town of Wallkill Police Department
- Town of Warwick Police Department
- Town of Woodbury Police Department
- Village of Highland Falls Police Department
- Village of Goshen Police Department
- Village of Bloomingburg Police Department
- New York State Police Special Investigations Unit
- New York State Police Violent Gang and Narcotics Enforcement Team (VGNET)
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