Posted on 09/28/2023 7:33:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Investigators say they've uncovered yet another drug mill in the Bronx, again involving fentanyl.
This one was located less than a mile away from the day care where several children were exposed to fentanyl, causing the death of a 1-year-old boy.
Detectives said Juan Gabriel Herrera Vargas rode on the subway Tuesday with a suitcase full of fentanyl. He got off at Kingsbridge Road and started walking toward an apartment, but investigators stopped him on the way.
The DEA says agents seized more than 40 pounds of fentanyl, much of it in a suitcase which officials say Herrera Vargas left behind when he took off running from investigators.
Later that night, the DEA says agents saw him leave an apartment in this building at Kingsbridge Road and Heath Avenue with another suitcase.
They arrested Herrera Vargas, and said they found even more drugs in that bag.
"It's scary," Brenda Wooton said.
Wooton goes to the building every week to take care of an elderly friend.
"There's kids here. There's elderly here. I'm here. So, I don't know, it's dangerous. I don't know who these people are, and I get on the elevator with them."
No one answered the door at the apartment Thursday, but the DEA said when investigators searched it Tuesday night, they found more fentanyl and packaging materials just blocks from the day care where four children were exposed to fentanyl earlier this month.
It's a heartbreaking reminder of the prevalence of an opioid that the DEA says is 50 times more potent than heroin.
The New York City Special Narcotics prosecutor is charging Herrera Vargas with operating as a major trafficker, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and criminally using drug paraphernalia.
The drugs had an estimated street value of $1.5 million.
"The public outcry after the poisoning death of a toddler was not enough to stop a drug mill from operating just six blocks away from that day care," DEA Special Agent in Charge Frank Tarentino said. "Herrera Vargas took danger one step further and wheeled over 40 pounds of fentanyl around the city and on the subway with no regard to public safety."
"The defendant is charged with transporting almost 30 pounds of fentanyl bricks in a rolling suitcase on a subway, through a subway station, and on the sidewalks of a busy Bronx neighborhood," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said. We
"Once again, a large supply of fentanyl has been found in the Bronx. For years, our community has been a hub for fentanyl distribution and has suffered so many deaths. The catastrophic loss of one-year-old Nicholas Dominici is the bleakest reminder that we must be relentless in removing drug traffickers from our city," Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said.
Only a matter of time there’s a mass killing from that stuff. Imagine a bag of it thrown around in a subway car, a plane, or thrown in the air system of a building. Oh it only takes an amount the size of a few grains of sand to kill someone, so let’s have a wide open border and allow tons and tons and tons of it to enter the USA
Common Core math?
Cop math.
The headline says more than 30lbs
The article says more than 40lbs.
What it does not say is the percentage.
Was it 30%. Was it 1% was it .0001%. Who knows
Cops take a swat team break into a house and then claim they found 2 lbs of weed, but they weighed the pot, soil as well as the seedling that only had 2 little leafs.
“ they’ve uncovered yet another drug mill in the Bronx”
So that’s how AOC can afford a Tesla, enrich her spouse/boyfriend and be worth millions.
Fentanyl is darn near everywhere in the US killing many people, some very innocent people among them, but all the media can talk about is CoVid version 2023.9.112328.
It’s not their fault. We aren’t panicking enough.
Reservoir.
There’s a fifty cent solution to these crimes.
I wonder what drug started all this. Should we be promoting said drug?
Yep. That stuff scares the hell out of me because from what I heard it immediately stops the person from breathing and I believe the person does remain conscious and aware of it.
Aussies are often caught with lots of stuff while transiting Singapore. When the death sentence is passed down Australia goes nuts.Even the Prime Minister protests. But they're executed anyway!
Anyone found trafficking drugs should be given a massive dose of whatever they’re moving.
“I wonder what drug started all this.”
Alcohol.
“Should we be promoting said drug?”
How are “we” “promoting” any drugs?
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