After more than 1,000 arrests, drug treatment comes online as part of Operation Rio Grande

Thirty-seven new beds are the first of up to 240 expected by 2018.

By Matthew Piper

| Sep. 8, 2017, 1:57 a.m.

| Updated: Sep. 12, 2017, 9:10 p.m.

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