Posted on 08/09/2017 8:39:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eighteen Pittsburgh SWAT officers were sickened by suspected fentanyl while assisting federal officials on a series of raids in the West End of the city Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Residents awoke to a large law enforcement presence as Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State police assisted Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security investigators and U.S. Postal Inspectors with serving search warrants and making arrests at three separate locations in Elliott, said U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Margaret Philbin. ICE was the lead agency on the raids at two houses on Lakewood Street and one on Bond Street as part of an ongoing drug investigation, according to a statement from Acting U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song.
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China is exporting it cheaply...that’s where a lot of it is coming from. The administration has put them on notice about it, too.
The heroin may or may not be good quality, enough to cause an overdose on its own. But adding this stuff is a near guarantee of a death sentence. That is murder.
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