Trump picks Florida sheriff Chad Chronister to lead DEA

[ad_1] Trump introduced Saturday that he's tapping Republican Florida sheriff Chad Chronister to serve as administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In a publish to his Fact Social platform, Trump mentioned Chronister "will work with our nice Lawyer Common, Pam Bondi, to safe the Border, cease the circulation of Fentanyl, and different Unlawful Medication, throughout the Southern Border."

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister in a June 2019 information convention. CBS Information Miami

Bondi, the previous Florida state legal professional basic, is Trump's decide to steer the Justice Division. She was chosen after Trump's earlier choice, former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, withdrew his nomination amid a Home Ethics Committee investigation into allegations in opposition to him of sexual misconduct.

Chronister has been sheriff of Florida's Hillsborough County since 2017 and has been with the company for 32 years. Hillsborough County contains a lot of the Tampa Bay space.

If confirmed by the Senate, he would substitute outgoing DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.

The DEA, which is a part of the Justice Division, has roughly 10,000 staff is tasked with imposing America's drug legal guidelines. Amongst its main edicts has been addressing the opioid disaster.

In an interview with "60 Minutes" in September, Milgram mentioned the U.S. is "shedding a technology" to fentanyl.

"As complicated and as large an issue as that is, it is also not a whodunit. We all know who's accountable," Milgram mentioned. "It is the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel which are based mostly in Mexico. They dominate and management all the world fentanyl provide chain, beginning in China, going to Mexico, coming into the USA."

Faris Tanyos

Faris Tanyos is a information editor for CBSNews.com, the place he writes and edits tales and tracks breaking information. He beforehand labored as a digital information producer at a number of native information stations up and down the West Coast.