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Local law enforcement agencies get a big payoff for a job well done.

Six agencies shared more than 300-thousand dollars from the property seized from the 2006 Joseph Swafford methamphetamine manufacturing case- including the Broadway Home and Garden Center.

The Department of Justice Equitable Sharing Program gave all the local and state agencies involved a percentage of the proceeds based on how much involvement they had in the case.

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department got the most- more than $209,000.

Sheriff Jim Hammond said Tuesday, "It's like many households. It's already spent. We have other operations and I think this is indicative of what we try to do in law enforcement by not putting more burden on the taxpayers but by getting the fruits of ill-gotten gains."

Chattanooga Police, East Ridge Police, T-B-I, Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission and the I-R-S each received a little more than $19,000.

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