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A car is seen parked near a neighborhood crime watch sign on Holland Street, in the area of Monday night gunfire in Wilkes-Barre.

WILKES-BARRE — Officials with the state Attorney General’s office regularly participate in anti-drug efforts in the city, but cannot discuss any current cases, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

“Office of Attorney General agents are part of the Luzerne County Drug Task Force, through which we work routinely with the Wilkes-Barre Police Department including investigative efforts to address the recent surge of violence,” said Carolyn Myers, spokesperson for the attorney general’s office.

“In October, we announced arrests involving two anabolic steroids rings operating in the area but we cannot discuss other operations or cases we are working because we don’t want to compromise our investigations.”

There has been a surge of gun violence in the city within the last three weeks, including seven shooting incidents in a recent six-day period. Mayor Thomas Leighton has pointed out that most of the recent shootings took place on or near apartment complexes.

In previous years, a surge of violent crime spewing from the apartment complexes off Coal Street prompted undercover drug investigations coordinated by the Attorney General’s Office.

Leighton said police are stepping up saturation patrols throughout the city to combat the surge of violence, noting the police department’s tactical anti-crime unit have conducted more investigations of drug trafficking.

Former police chief Gerard Dessoye in 2013 reassigned the anti-crime unit to target drug traffickers in response to a similar surge of violence that included 13 homicides.