NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- After a month long investigation, members of NY's Drug Enforcement Task Force conducted a search warrant in the Bronx leading them to find $7 million worth of heroin and fentanyl inside a Bronx apartment.
Officials were able to dismantle a "heroin mill" and recovered approximately 750,000 glassines of heroin.
Police also seized 750,000 drug filled envelopes that were headed for distribution in New York City and Massachusetts.
"Even veteran narcotics investigators were surprised by the output of this packaging operation, which was run out of a nondescript apartment in the borough afflicted by the city's highest rate of overdose death," said Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan. "
Members of the DEA said investigators allegedly spotted eight people carrying furnishings and equipment that are typically used in packaging heroin and fentanyl, including a glass table, plastic containers, desk lamps and folding chairs enter apartment 6A at 2559 Sedgwick Avenue on Jan. 24.
The next day, investigators allegedly observed individuals carrying weighted black plastic garbage bags into the same apartment and a woman carrying 15 bags of groceries into the apartment.
Police arrested six suspects ranging from the ages of 21 to 25.
Diego Tejada, 21, Pafraimy Antonio, 21, Frederick Baldera, 23, Frandi Ledema, 23, Jaslin Baldera, 24, and Livo Valdez, 25, were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree.
Investigators also allegedly found the six defendants in the middle of packaging powder-filled glassine envelopes that were branded "Fire" into bundles.
Meanwhile on Staten Island, officials also seized a "tremendous" amount of illegal drugs on Wednesday.
Police were executing a search warrant around 5:30 p.m. at Storage King USA storage facility located at Victory Boulevard in the Bulls Head section
Officers were able to recover 275 pounds of marijuana, 3,935 rove THC cartridges and 8,100 cannabis oil cartridges known as glo extracts.
NYPD Inspector Isa Abbassi tweeted that the drugs were seized "before they contaminated the streets of Staten Island."
So far no arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.
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