PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — After a two-year investigation, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have shut down a major multi-million-dollar drug operation impacting several Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Assistant District Attorney Stephen Girman, with the Dangerous Drug Offender Unit, said in December 2025, the Delaware River Port Authority Police stopped the main suspect along the Ben Franklin Bridge on his way back to Philadelphia from New York City.
Police seized guns and drug paraphernalia. They then executed a search warrant on a stash house in South Philadelphia.
“During the course of that search warrant, we recovered three firearms and two kilos of fentanyl, which was in the stages of being packaged,” Girman said.
From there, the investigation led to the suspected owner and manager of a drug block in Kensington. Girman said that suspect bagged the drugs — many laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl — in his condo at 12th and Chestnut streets and brought the drugs to his street workers.
A pill mill in New York was identified as part of the active investigation, and 58 kilos of bulk cocaine shipped from the West Coast to Philadelphia were intercepted last week — with the help of a narcotics detection K-9 named “Moose.”
"This was cocaine that was meant for Philadelphia and the Greater Philadelphia area that would have been broken down and distributed to dealers of various levels,” Girman said.
Two people — Raabitah Reynolds and Ephraim Ramsey — have been arrested and charged with a handful of things, including possession with intent to distribute. More arrests are expected.
