{"id":327177,"date":"2026-08-22T03:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:17:45","slug":"game-of-death-fentanyl-mill-busted-in-bronx-raid-drugs-had-1m-street-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327177\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Game of Death’ fentanyl mill busted in Bronx raid, drugs had $1M street value"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal agents arrested seven people and seized narcotics with a street value of roughly $1 million after raiding a Bronx drug mill where packages labeled \u201cGame of Death\u201d were stuffed with fentanyl<\/a>, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

The bust followed a long-term Drug Enforcement Administration investigation. Agents conducting surveillance outside a Bronx Blvd. apartment building near E. 224th St. in Wakefield spotted two suspects carrying a brown paper bag enter a Honda CRV around 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After searching the vehicle, the agents recovered a clear plastic bag that appeared to contain narcotics. The two men in the car, Exander Rodriguez-Santos and Juan Burgos, were taken into custody, and the feds seized a key to an apartment inside the nearby residential building.<\/p>\n

The DEA agents then entered the apartment, where they found four men and one woman laboring in an active fentanyl packaging mill, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"Glassine<\/p>\n

DEA New York Task Force Division<\/p>\n

Glassine envelopes stamped “Game of Death” are seen after a fentanyl bust in the Bronx on Tuesday. (DEA New York Task Force Division)<\/p>\n

\u201cShutting down an operation with mill workers fully equipped to fill tens of thousands of small glassine bags with fentanyl for street sales undoubtedly saved precious lives,\u201d Brennan said.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement recovered tens of thousands of glassines believed to contain fentanyl at the apartment, along with drug paraphernalia including grinders, strainers, scales and bottled cutting agents, Brennan said. Roughly 8 pounds of apparent fentanyl mixtures were seized.<\/p>\n

Narcotics inside the apartment tested positive for fentanyl in field tests. The results of DEA laboratory analysis are pending.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is alarming that these defendants were allegedly operating a fentanyl packaging mill using labels that read \u2018Game of Death\u2019 across the street from a park where children are known to play,\u201d said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. \u201cInvestigators found Narcan taped to the walls of the apartment where drugs valued at over $1 million were discovered, suggesting that those involved were protecting themselves while working to poison the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

During their arraignments, bail was set for all seven defendants in amounts ranging from $100,000 to $400,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal agents arrested seven people and seized narcotics with a street value of roughly $1 million after raiding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[123104,128,31266,123019,123105,71188,9,24,63,123103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-327177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bridget-brennan","tag-bronx","tag-drug-paraphernalia","tag-fentanyl-mill","tag-fentanyl-packaging","tag-glassine-envelopes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-special-narcotics-prosecutor","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}