Posted on 12/13/2018 10:45:33 PM PST by LeonardFMason
Bucks County authorities have charged nearly a dozen people with running a massive narcotics distribution center out of an unassuming Warminster home, pumping out nearly $8 million of opioids per week, District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said Wednesday.
Check out good old American names of those killing Suburban housewives children.
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Every time something is "prohibited" it literally creates a "criminal" monopoly. No competition allowed. Just a "criminal" monopoly.
We never had any cartel problems before our brothers keepers decided we did not have the right to decide for ourselves of what we partook.
Let the druggist sell drugs, let the Dr.s advise, let the individual decide!
As it is it's little more than a game of bribery and mother may I, or dealing with deep state criminals.
Shocked I tell you. Absolutely shocked! I was certain it would be a band of scruffy Norwegians led by Ole and Lena.
Of course, people who live in their own libertarian fantasy land don't read history. Or at least they come up with BS about what's different now but never bother to confront the fact that for all the changes in recent history human nature hasn't changed.
Probably Obama “Dreamers”.
“I hope they are not separating these people from their children.”
+100
“Doing the jobs Americans won’t do”.
Yeah, all-American citizens. I wonder how many of these pukes were/are illegal or amnestied earlier?
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Busted: $8-million-a-week drug ring run out of Bucks County home
by Erin McCarthy, Updated: December 12, 2018
Busted: $8-million-a-week drug ring run out of Bucks County home
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Bucks County authorities have charged nearly a dozen people with running a massive narcotics distribution center out of an unassuming Warminster home, pumping out nearly $8 million of opioids per week, District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said Wednesday.
After several months of investigation, the FBI, Pennsylvania state police, and local authorities descended late Tuesday on the single-family home in the 600 block of Cheryl Drive. When they entered, all 11 of those arrested were inside, with some working at basement stations set up for drug packaging, authorities said.
The home on the 600 block of Cheryl Drive in Warminster where 11 people were arrested in a massive drug bust.
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The home on the 600 block of Cheryl Drive in Warminster where 11 people were arrested in a massive drug bust.
Investigators found about 200 pounds of heroin and fentanyl; bundles packaged for sale; stacks of cash totaling $32,000; 200 discarded heroin wrappers; and a loaded silver Taurus handgun, Weintraub said.
“This is as normal a residential community, 9-to-5 sleepy bedroom community as you will find anywhere in the country,” Weintraub said, “and this was going on right in the middle of it.”
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Moises Rodriguez, 42, of Paterson, N.J., and Dariel Vasquez, 38, of Northeast Philadelphia, ran the operation, authorities said, and had often been seen leaving the house with giant trash bags. Weintraub said the pair regularly transported large quantities of drugs to and from the residence, but he did not know to where exactly they had traveled. No attorneys for the men were listed on court documents on Wednesday.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub discusses the arrest of 11 people who allegedly operated a drug ring out of a Warminster home.
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Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub discusses the arrest of 11 people who allegedly operated a drug ring out of a Warminster home.
Warminster police have had the home on their radar since July, when an anonymous tip came in about suspicious activity, said Police Chief James Donnelly III.
The case exemplifies why tips from the public are important to authorities, Weintraub said.
“Keep your tips coming,” he said. “They are working.”
Those charged were living in the home, Weintraub said, but did not own it. The owner of the property had no idea what was going on there, he added.
Six of the defendants had no fixed address, according to court documents, and Weintraub said he didn’t know what brought them together in this quiet neighborhood, aside from the allure of making a profit. Authorities also said they did not know how long the drug ring had been operating out of that home.
The crew’s secret scheme came to an end on Tuesday.
A window at the home on the 600 block of Cheryl Drive where 11 people were arrested during a drug bust.
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A window at the home on the 600 block of Cheryl Drive where 11 people were arrested during a drug bust.
TV news footage showed officials in hazmat suits and masks appearing to search the property into the night, parking a large truck in the driveway and hauling out dozens of boxes. Weintraub declined to elaborate on the logistics of the federal raid, but said it was “like what you’d see in the movies.”
Arrested alongside Rodriguez and Vasquez were Nuris Martinez, Yocasta Maria-Mercedes, Eleni Saturrie, Carlos Garcia-Perez, Roberto Espinal, Jose Luis-Morales, Luis Torres, Devlin Perez, and Luigi Ortega. All face drug distribution and related charges.
All were being held Wednesday at the Bucks County Correctional Facility. Bail for Rodriguez and Vazquez was set at $10 million each; the other nine each had bail set at $5 million.
Warminster Chief of Police James Donnelly III speaks with media as Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub stands to the left.
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Warminster Chief of Police James Donnelly III speaks with media as Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub stands to the left.
For years, a heroin epidemic has been building across the country. Fentanyl, heroin’s cheaper, more addictive, and more potent counterpart, has recently increased in popularity, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data. In Pennsylvania, the synthetic opioid was present in 67 percent of the more than 5,000 overdose deaths in 2017.
Prood that going after prescription drugs like vicodin, oxycontin etc are not the problem yet, very real people with very real pain are being stigmatized and denied relief by the efforts of the fedzilla...
Can we use confiscated drug money to build the Wall?
only problem is if someone plants it on you and you get swatted. or corrupt officials just lie and say you had drugs.
Proof that going after prescription drugs like vicodin, oxycontin etc are not the problem and yet, very real people with very real pain are being stigmatized and denied relief by the efforts of the fedzilla...
(Fixed. Dont know why it copied the entire article the first time)
As long as they include alcohol.
Luigi Ortega?
Absolutely, let's include akihol in your litany of decadence. Cigarettes while we're at it.
Oh, what a relief. I was worried it was Moose-limbs.
And you ask why all those people want to enter the USA? They are salesmen and women looking to be rich by being your local sales agent. The promise of easy money is drawing them, because of the cartel backing, the cartel needs more sales agents. OK I’m sure there are more than a few that just want the opportunity to find honest work, but when they don’t, what happens?????? I don’t want to brand them, because in the past this country brought in Tesla and Marconi, but they also brought in Capone and Luciano. There is good and bad in the batch, but the batch has to be looked at carefully before we open the doors.
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