Arrest for Fentanyl-contaminated Heroin

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By CAROL COMEGNO
Courier-Post Staff
A Philadelphia woman and a juvenile have been arrested in the police investigation of a deadly heroin mixture that has killed hundreds nationwide and about 60 in the tri-county area since April.

The arrests were made a month ago in Philadelphia but were not announced until late Friday by Wilmington, Del., police because the matter was under investigation. The joint probe, which includes federal drug enforcement agencies, is continuing.

Overdose deaths that have occurred in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware are among hundreds nationwide that have been blamed on heroin tainted with the painkiller fentanyl.

Fentanyl is attractive to drug users because it is highly potent and cheaper than heroin. It is used legally in anesthesia and for some cancer patients.

Of the more than 60 overdose deaths believed to be connected to fentanyl in South Jersey, nearly all were in Camden and Gloucester counties.

There have been 30 deaths in Camden County since the first batch of tainted heroin surfaced in April on the streets of Camden, said county prosecutor's office spokesman Capt. Richard Minardi.

There also have been an estimated 30 deaths linked to the mixture in Gloucester County, Bernie Weisenfeld, spokesman for the Gloucester County prosecutor, said.

There were less than a half dozen overdose deaths in Burlington County in the spring, but Burlington County prosecutor's office spokesman Jack Smith said Saturday he does not know how many have been linked to fentanyl. He said the victims were all young males in Medford, Medford Lakes, Marlton and Moorestown.

Master Sgt. Steven T. Elliott of the Wilmington police department said the two arrested July 19 are suspected of manufacturing the tainted heroin. He
identified them as Yasmin Rosa, 30, and a 17-year-old female who lives with Rosa in the 3000 block of N. 6th Street in Philadelphia, where they were arrested.

In executing a search warrant there, he said investigators from Philadelphia and Delaware found bulk quantities of both heroin and fentanyl valued at more than $40,000 as well as several thousand dollars in cash and drug packaging materials and equipment.

"Philadelphia police, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and DEA contingents from Delaware and Pennsylvania believe a significant amount of the fentanyl-laced heroin was taken off the street," Elliott said.

He said Wilmington detectives from the Drug, Organized Crime and Vice Division began an aggressive investigation in April that led them to the Philadelphia connection and upper level dealers involved in the supply. Since April there have been nine deaths from tainted heroin in the Wilmington area.

Elliott said the two females tried to flee out the back door of the home but were apprehended by police who had surrounded the house.

They both have been charged in Philadelphia with possession with the intent to distribute illegal narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia and drugs, use of telecommunications systems to commit a crime, and conspiracy.

New Jersey authorities were not involved in the Philadelphia arrests.
 
narco anonomous said:
Fentanyl is attractive to drug users because it is highly potent and cheaper than heroin.
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What in the hell are they talking about? The only reason all these people OD'ed on fentanyl is because they thought they were getting heroin. The fentanyl is attractive to the dealers because it's so cost effective whereas the users aren't getting it for any less than their bags of heroin.

Journalists who don't use drugs should be forbidden from writing about the drug scene.
 
I dont believe anyone should be arrested for selling drugs BUT the fuckers that are selling fentanyl as herion should be shot or sent to prison:|
 
I wish I could show you guys the picture from the paper, before I even saw the title her face made me sick. It was mostly the expression.
 
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I saw in the sunday Inquirer, but I read the story before online.

Did you read the cover story about the EMT's, paramedic's, and Narcan?
 
Madhatter4 said:
I dont believe anyone should be arrested for selling drugs BUT the fuckers that are selling fentanyl as herion should be shot or sent to prison:|
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Those dealers knew they had a dangerous product and instead of getting rid of it, they still kept pushing it just to make back their money once they knew it was bad. I'm sorry, but anyone that could care less if their customers die deserves the death sentence. That's negligible homicide. Only moreso than negligence, not only did you know you were putting these people in a dangerous situation, but you knew that there wasn't just a risk, but definitely that people would OD.
 
Were these people all shooting it?

I don't do H as much these days, but I don't think I'd like to get any fentanyl bags. No reports of fentanyl OD deaths this way though. The people I'd get it from would probably mention there's something different about the bags before I got them though.
 
where are you from carl? its in alot of parts in the east coast and chicago. And your dealer probably wouldnt tell you, people are scared to death of this shit, death in the hundreds!
 
If drugs were legal and junkies were actually taken care of, we wouldn't have this problem and we wouldn't have pieces of shit selling fentanyl-cut heroin that's killing a number of people. This is actually become a larger problem, I've seen a number of news reports about this in the Great Lakes region, and since they said they arrested upper-level dealers, that kind of means it's the cartels and the mob that's doing this and I hate to say this, but good job law enforcement.
 
I'm sorry dude, I know everyone on this site or most are hell bent on legalizing drugs, but I just don't think it would work. You can never really understand how much fear you harbor untill you have it relieved, and you can never really forget. I speak from personal experience. Heroin and most of the drugs you know and love will never be legally available in the same manor as alchohol. I live in Holland, and though we don't persecute, we have all the same problems with heroin addicts, its not gunna happen. Maybe you're country will start taking precotions like distributing nalprexone, but they will not legalize heroin, and if they did it wouldn't work, you know it and I know it.
 
narco, what problems do you have with heroin users in Holland? Before listing them, consider that legal heroin could cost as much as aspirin does now, and there would be no black market, so theft and violence due to economic reasons would not exist.
 
true, mos't of the things they do are out of lack of money, like conning tourists and loutering around the hallways of random apartment building because they have nowhere else to go. But they are not productive members of society, it's really hard to function in a manner that is productive when your walking on clouds all the time. It's hard to posses the flexibilty of a normal person when you have to worry about getting sick if you miss a dose. Some manage to be productive, but most sit around and do nothing.
 
And being an opiate addict is not much of a life after awhile. Not gunna say it gets old fast, but it doese get old.
 
narco, you wouldn't have to worry about missing a dose when it's legal and as cheap as bottled water. Users would have a constant supply. Heroin does not preclude someone from living a full and productive life. Many successful people are secret opiate addicts.

And to counter your claim that heroin has to be illegal, I'll allow your theory that opiate users are all unproductive flakes. So are children, the elderly, and large swaths of the uneducated masses. We certainly don't go around demonizing them like we do opiate users. Why not? They're just as unproductive as the opiate users you're talking about.
 
what makes you think for one second big business wouldn't jump on that shit in a heart beat, yea we're gunna sell it like bottled water, pfff. There sure are and for every one secret successful opiate addict that has it on lock there is probably two that fucks up I've seen people just give up all that got them to the place there at on dope. children are not unproductive every decision they make produces a result in the future individual they are to become. Elderly having been productive for sooo long compensates for lack of productiveness they really don't have much of a choice in that. And we do demonize the uneducated its called UPN. sick burn. sorry that had nothing to do with the argument I couldn't refuse. But uneducated people have jobs to. Thing is, heroin targets everyone, anyone can become a heroin addict, there's just so much fear in our society, our society is run by it. Give society an exit to that fear and things could very realisticly crumble.
 
for something to remain legal the general public would have to take atleast a nuetral stance on it, if they did take one less of those people with moral issues would see a difference between heroin and the oxycontin in there kitchen cabinets. And most people do like opiates. "I seriously doubt there would all of the sudden be a 100% unemployed junky rate if drugs were legal" Neither do I, but I do believe in the power of that drug, and the meaninglessness of modern life. But don't get me wrong I certainly don't think the War on drugs is working. Just don't see the sense in acting like legalizing heroin would change the nature of addiction, there have been times in my life when I have had an unlimited supply of dope, happened just like it would have had I not had it.
 
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