Sheriff Says Officers Can Work Better Outside Of Shrinking Group

With four of its five partners abandoning a Travis County-led anti-drug coalition, Sheriff Margo Frasier has been forced to pull out of the Capital Area Narcotics Task Force - a dwindling consortium of Central Texas agencies involved in two deadly drug raids in little more than a year.

Frasier said Friday that despite the loss of her partners, she already had made up her mind to yank her officers from the troubled unit that was never "as successful as it could have been."

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