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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5312in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D82F01.165D84D0" alt="Graphical user interface, text
Description automatically generated"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">March 3, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Gov. Little launches “Operation Esto Perpetua” to fight Idaho’s growing drug threat<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little kicked off “Operation Esto Perpetua” today, a new strategy mentioned in his January 10 State
of the State address that will serve to combat Idaho’s growing drug threat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“Meth and fentanyl are the most serious and growing drug threats in Idaho, and there is a direct tie to the loose border with
Mexico. There is much more we can do to make Idaho’s communities safer. With Operation Esto Perpetua, we are bringing together law enforcement, lawmakers, cities, counties, tribes, families, and the public in new ways with one goal – to meaningfully reduce
the flow of fentanyl and meth into the State of Idaho,”</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Governor Little said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little said the increasing availability of drugs – high supply, low price, and totally unpredictable potency – along with
the impact on Idaho communities from abuse and crime related to drug abuse, present continuing threats to the health and safety of Idahoans.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Operation Esto Perpetua includes both a Law Enforcement Panel and a Citizens Action Group on Fentanyl. The Citizens Action Group
on Fentanyl will meet regularly throughout the state over the next couple of months. They will hear from local law enforcement and members of the public about their loved ones’ experiences with fentanyl and meth. The Citizens Action Group will take input and
comments from the public at each stop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“I encourage Idahoans to participate in the regional meetings coming up over the next two months and share their personal experiences
with the Citizens Action Group on Fentanyl. We need to hear from Idahoans about the impacts of fentanyl and meth in the lives of their loved ones,”</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
Governor Little said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">More information about Operation Esto Perpetua and upcoming meetings is available at
</span></b></span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/operation-esto-perpetua/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">https://gov.idaho.gov/operation-esto-perpetua/</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Law Enforcement Panel includes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Col. Ked Wills</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
of the Idaho State Police<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Pocatello
<b>Chief of Police Roger Schei</b>, representing the Idaho Chiefs of Police Association<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Canyon County<b> Sheriff Kieran Donahue</b>, representing the Idaho Sheriffs Association<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boise Police<b> Detective</b>
<b>Mike Miraglia</b>, representing the Fraternal Order of the Police<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Marianne King</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">,
director of the Governor’s Office of Drug Policy<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Luke Malek</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">,
attorney and former prosecutor<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Citizens Action Group on Fentanyl includes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Shoshone-Paiute Tribe
<b>Chairman Brian Thomas</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Custer County
<b>Commissioner Wayne Butts</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Coeur d’Alene
<b>Mayor Jim Hammond</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">House Speaker Scott Bedke<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Senator Abby Lee<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Dana Kirkham</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">,
former mayor of Ammon, eastern Idaho mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">One other public member to be named<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNoSpacing" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Luke Malek</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
will chair the action group<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">To reinforce Idaho’s commitment to this effort, Governor Little is seeking $250,000 to carry out the objectives of Operation Esto
Perpetua.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Last year, Governor Little
</span></span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-nine-other-governors-to-visit-u-s-mexico-border-wednesday/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">joined fellow governors</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
in Texas to see firsthand the crisis playing out at the U.S.-Mexico border. The border crisis affects all states, not just Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. The governors strongly suggested
</span></span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/governors-detail-their-policy-solutions-to-alleviate-border-crisis/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">10 concrete policy solutions</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Idaho’s growing drug threat is a direct consequence of the loose border with Mexico. Law enforcement reporting shows the supply
of illicit fentanyl from Mexico in the region has become much more prevalent. The majority of officers surveyed reported that investigations involving fentanyl were directly tied to sources in Mexico. Law enforcement reporting shows drugs are primarily transported
into Oregon and Idaho from Mexico through California. Approximately 96-percent of Drug Trafficking Organizations investigated identified Mexico as the source country for drugs trafficked into the region.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little
</span></span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-details-his-plan-to-help-secure-u-s-mexico-border-and-protect-idahoans/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">sent a team
of Idaho State Police troopers</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> to the U.S.-Mexico border last year to assist the State
of Arizona with their drug interdiction efforts, and they returned with better knowledge and intel to fight the drug battle here in Idaho.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Hyer<span class="normaltextrun">, Press Secretary</span><span class="eop"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk97205503"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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