Police say that they found it hard to infiltrate the small, tightknit drug community in Lebanon.

LEBANON, Ind. (Nov. 6, 1998) -- The tenet "everyone knows everyone" lends to the charm as well as the frustration of small town life.

Police who worked months to get a foot in the door of Lebanon's drug-dealing community found how that truism works against law enforcement.

A yearlong investigation dubbed Operation Small Town culminated Thursday with pre-dawn sweeps by 75 state, county and local police officers with warrants for 21 people allegedly linked to drug trafficking in Lebanon.

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