Representatives of federal agencies joined Rob McGuire, acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, to announce the formation of task force in Middle Tennessee. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Federal officials on Thursday announced the formation of a Nashville-based Homeland Security Task Force to combat gangs, drug trafficking and transnational crime across Middle Tennessee.

Dozens of federal law enforcement agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division and state and local agencies will be deployed across central Tennessee as part of the expanded “whole government” approach to law enforcement, said Rob McGuire, acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.

The task fo

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