THE BRONX, New Yok (WABC) — About 90 pounds of fentanyl were taken off the streets during a massive drug bust in the Bronx, according to the DEA and Bronx district attorney.<\/p>\n
DEA officials announced the massive bust on Friday afternoon, calling it a precision takedown through a joint effort between the DEA, NYPD and the New York City Special Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n
The takedown involved dismantling, what officials called, three fentanyl packaging mills. They say the locations were completely unrelated, and eight people were arrested.<\/p>\n
Ninety pounds of fentanyl was recovered, worth $7.5 million.<\/p>\n
Investigators displayed glassines, bricks and powdered fentanyl at the Friday’s press conference. They also seized than $30,000 in cash and two loaded guns.<\/p>\n
The takedown happened Wednesday afternoon at three packaging mills within a three-mile radius. They were located at residential apartment buildings where families lived, and near schools in the Mount Eden and Belmont sections of the Bronx, and in Washington Heights.<\/p>\n
At one location alone, the packaging mill in Washington Heights, investigators say there were hundreds of thousands of glassines of fentanyl ready for distribution.<\/p>\n
“A lot of these mills will be dormant for long periods of time, and just coincidentally, on this day, the question is when do you hit it? It’s a tactical decision, but we like to see bags going in. We don’t like to see bags coming out,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Christopher Roberts. “Bags coming out means it’s going to be distributed. So many times if we see a bag come out, we may hit someone on the street. If it’s positive, then we make the decision, do we go back inside? And on Wednesday we made a decision to be active. We had people coming and going and we went back inside, with obviously warrants… and it netted us like a huge amount of fentanyl.”<\/p>\n
Mulk, an NYPD K-9, had to be given two doses of Narcan after a raid on Prospect Avenue.<\/p>\n
Investigators say when they got back to the precinct, she was very lethargic and her eye were dilated, but she’s back to normal now.<\/p>\n
All eight suspects are in custody facing a number of drug charges and are being held on bail.<\/p>\n
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