Trump picks Florida sheriff Chad Chronister to lead DEA

Trump announced Saturday that helium is tapping Republican Florida sheriff Chad Chronister to serve arsenic head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.  

In a station to his Truth Social platform, Trump said Chronister "will enactment with our large Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to unafraid the Border, halt the travel of Fentanyl, and different Illegal Drugs, crossed the Southern Border."

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister successful a June 2019 quality conference.  CBS News Miami

Bondi, the erstwhile Florida authorities lawyer general, is Trump's pick to pb the Justice Department. She was chosen aft Trump's erstwhile selection, erstwhile Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, withdrew his nomination amid a House Ethics Committee probe into allegations against him of intersexual misconduct.  

Chronister has been sheriff of Florida's Hillsborough County since 2017 and has been with the bureau for 32 years. Hillsborough County includes overmuch of the Tampa Bay area. 

If confirmed by the Senate, helium would regenerate outgoing DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. 

The DEA, which is portion of the Justice Department, has astir 10,000 employees is tasked with enforcing America's cause laws. Among its large edicts has been addressing the opioid crisis.

In an interrogation with "60 Minutes" successful September, Milgram said the U.S. is "losing a generation" to fentanyl.

"As analyzable and arsenic monolithic a occupation arsenic this is, it's besides not a whodunit. We cognize who's responsible," Milgram said. "It's the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel that are based successful Mexico. They predominate and power the full planetary fentanyl proviso chain, starting successful China, going to Mexico, coming into the United States."

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