{"id":48678,"date":"2021-08-01T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=48678"},"modified":"2021-08-01T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T12:53:33","slug":"chesco-sheriffs-office-joins-phillys-operation-priority-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=48678","title":{"rendered":"Chesco Sheriff&#8217;s Office joins Philly&#8217;s &#8216;Operation Priority Takedown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14304\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Operation-Priority-Takedown-Philly-073021-CCSO-and-others-and-weapons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14304\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Operation-Priority-Takedown-Philly-073021-CCSO-and-others-and-weapons-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Friday, law enforcement agencies announced 37 arrests and displayed weapons seized during \u201cOperation Priority Takedown.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014\u00a0This weekend, residents of the greater Philadelphia area slept a little safer, thanks to a collaboration among the Chester County Sheriff\u2019s Office (CCSO), Sheriff\u2019s Offices of Delaware and Bucks counties, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Philadelphia Police Department, the FBI and the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office, all coordinated by the Sheriff\u2019s Office of Philadelphia\u2019s Fugitive Warrant Unit and Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal.<\/p>\n<p>In a multi-day raid in Philadelphia, ending early Friday morning, July 30, 2021, law enforcement officers and deputies arrested 37 individuals with warrants for the most violent crimes and gun offenses. They also seized weapons and ammunition.\u00a0No injuries were reported.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Taking part were members of the CCSO\u2019s Fugitive Apprehension Unit, who assisted in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting crime must involve collaboration, because crime doesn\u2019t pay attention to geographic boundaries,\u201d said Chester County Sheriff Fredda Maddox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy working together with the many law enforcement agencies involved in \u2018Operation Priority Takedown\u2019 to take the most dangerous people and their weapons off the streets, our extended community is better protected. This is yet another way that our county\u2019s deputies put their lives on the line for the safety of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014\u00a0This weekend, residents of the greater Philadelphia area slept a little safer, thanks to a collaboration among the Chester County Sheriff\u2019s Office (CCSO), Sheriff\u2019s Offices of Delaware and Bucks counties, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Philadelphia Police Department, the FBI and the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office, all coordinated by the Sheriff\u2019s Office of Philadelphia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2984,7426,13960],"class_list":["post-48678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-sheriffs-office","tag-featured","tag-operation-priority-takedown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48679,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions\/48679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}