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    Cartels turn New York into a fentanyl distribution center

    Cartels turn New York into a fentanyl distribution center



    February 14, 2018

    Traffickers use a drug that is 50 times more powerful than heroin
    They had a couple of weeks in the United States from Mexico. The middle-aged couple had been in New Jersey, had gone shopping at a Walmart, had dinner at an IHop. They returned home only to be arrested.

    US anti-narcotics agents, with a search warrant in hand, entered the apartment located in one of the apartment buildings in Queens.

    Inside one of the many suitcases the couple had arrived in the United States with, the officers found drugs, but not "the usual ones."

    It was not methamphetamine, nor cocaine, much less marijuana, it was pure fentanyl, a synthetic and extremely dangerous opioid, 50 times more powerful than heroin.

    The lethality of this drug is shown with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which indicate that more than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year. As well as five times more deaths caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.

    The couple owned 141 pounds, almost 64 kilos, of that substance. It was the largest fentanyl seizure in the history of the United States.

    According to the Drug Control Administration (DEA), in those 64 kilos there was enough of the drug to kill 32 million people.

    Rogelio Alvarado Robles, 55, and Blanca Flores Solis, 52, were arrested.

    And although they had no criminal record, much less weapons, they were both drug runners to negotiate the sale of tens of millions of dollars in narcotics, as pharmaceutical executives on a "business trip."

    To the DEA, the drug cartels seek to turn New York into their distribution center.

    So far this year [2017] they have seized more than 350 pounds, almost 159 kilos, of pure fentanyl in New York City, 10 times more than in 2016.

    Fentanyl seems better than heroin for trafficking because of its various advantages. First because it is much more profitable.

    In addition, far from growing in the undergrowth of distant mountains, such as poppy, heroin base plant, this, like methamphetamine, can be manufactured in clandestine laboratories using relatively inexpensive chemicals.

    Not to mention that its potency makes it able to be diluted to exponentially increase the doses at street level, either in the form of powder or alternative pills pressed to look like brands such as OxyContin and Percoset.

    For James Hunt, head of the New York Division of the DEA, the way in which this drug is distributed in the city is also different.

    They put aside the violence, the drug traffickers become "evil businessmen", who invest 3 thousand dollars and earn millions of dollars.

    "They are smart," says Jimmy Arroyo, a special agent of the DEA that leads the team that in recent months has made several important arrests related to Mexican traffickers. "They know that if they kill people, they will attract attention."

    The criminal organization responsible for bringing fentanyl to the United States is the Sinaloa Cartel .
    According to the DEA, 80% of the fentanyl seized in the New York area is related to the Sinaloan drug lords.

    And it's no surprise to the US authorities, according to its National Assessment on the Threat of Drugs, the Sinaloa Cartel is the one with the largest presence in the United States.

    This despite the fact that its most recognized leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera "El Chapo " is incarcerated in a Manhattan prison. So perhaps the defense of the criminal boss can be financed in part with the benefits of sales of fentanyl made only a few meters from his cell.

    The drug traffickers even avoid the precarious areas of New York’s rougher neighborhoods, to avoid being robbed or detected by the DEA. They seek to settle in the places of high prestige.

    The Americans' concern about drugs is such that President Donald Trump declared that opiate addiction was a public health emergency.

    For his part, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has defined fentanyl as "the number one killer drug in the United States [...] and as deadly as it is, you can connect and ask for it by mail."

    With information from The Washington Post http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/0...-new-york.html


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    270 Pounds of Drugs Seized in Record Fentanyl Bust, Officials Say

    By Ben Fractenberg | September 18, 2017 5:48pm
    Police made their largest-ever fentanyl bust in the city after recovering more than 140 pounds of the synthetic opioid from a Kew Gardens apartment on Aug. 1, 2017. View Full Caption Special Narcotics Prosecutor

    MIDTOWN — Police seized nearly 270 pounds of narcotics worth $30 million during separate busts in Queens and The Bronx, including a record haul of fentanyl, law enforcement officials said Monday.
    The first arrest on Aug. 1 led to the largest seizure of fentanyl in city history, with more than 140 pounds of the synthetic opioid recovered in a raid on a Kew Gardens apartment, federal prosecutors said.
    Investigators recovered an additional 55 pounds of narcotics after pulling over suspected drug runners on the Major Deegan Expressway near Yankee Stadium on Sept. 5.
    “The sheer volume of fentanyl pouring into the city is shocking. It’s not only killing a record number of people in New York City, but the city is used as a hub of regional distribution for a lethal substance that is taking thousands of lives throughout the Northeast,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in a statement.
    In the first case, New Jersey investigators first noticed Queens couple Rogelio Alvarado-Robles, 55, and Blanca Flores-Solis, 51, after they they drove a Mercedes-Benz with Florida license plates into the parking lot of a Walmart in Manahawkin authorities were surveilling on Aug. 1, officials said.
    Police then observed Alvarado-Robles take a shopping bag from an unidentified man before walking into the store and putting the bag into a backpack Flores-Solis was carrying.
    Investigators trailed the couple, who made several other stops before pulling into the garage of their building at 85-15 120th St. in Kew Gardens. Police then confronted them and found a kilo of cocaine in the backpack. After securing a search warrant for their apartment, authorities found suitcases and a purse holding 140 pounds of fentanyl and more than 48 pounds of fentanyl mixed with heroin, prosecutors said.

    Rogelio Alvarado-Robles and Blanca Flores-Solis after their Aug. 1 arrest. (Special Narcotics Prosecutor)
    The couple was arrested and charged with various counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance.
    In the second case, narcotics officers were surveilling a Home Depot in Woodbridge, New Jersey, on Sept. 5 when they saw a tractor-trailer with California plates pull into the rear parking lot.
    About two hours later, Bronx residents Edwin Guzman, 35, and Manuel Rivera-Santana, 32, were seen walking from the front of the store to the truck and picking up a large duffel bag, which appeared to be “full and heavy,” officials said.
    Investigators then tailed the men as they drove in a Toyota Sienna across the George Washington Bridge to the Major Deegan Expressway, pulling them over at the West 161st Street exit.
    Authorities then got a warrant to search the duffel bag and recovered 55 pounds of pure fentanyl and fentanyl mixed with heroin, according to prosecutors.
    The men were arrested and charged with conspiracy and various counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance.
    Investigators brought the drugs to an NYPD laboratory, which issued reports last week on the type and exact amount of drugs seized.
    Guzman was the only person busted who had a prior arrest, which was for drunk driving on July 24, according to an NYPD spokesman and court records.
    He was held on $300,000 bail after being arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on September 11.
    Rivera-Santana was also held on $300,000 bail after his arraignment that same day, court records show.
    Flores-Solis and Alvarado-Robles were both held without bail after their Sept. 12 arraignments in Manhattan Criminal Court.
    Lawyers for all four defendants did not return requests for comment.
    https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...e-bronx-queens

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    And vote out anybody that wants to give amnesty to millions of unknowns residing, working in the USA. The cartels operate within hispanics and have wonderful cover in communities. If the drug cartel members or their runners/dstributors have no police record, they would receive amnesty and the right to be here - never get rid of them then. Yet, the Dems wanted all in the country amnestied and come on in till 6/30/18! They can't put 2 & 2 together.

    erxcerpt from another writer on Ny bust:
    According to DEA intelligence gleaned from wiretaps, about 80 percent of the fentanyl seized in the New York area appears to be linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. The organization remains North America’s dominant trafficking group, even as its leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, awaits trial in a maximum-security jail in Lower Manhattan.
    Sinaloa’s smuggling machine has carried on without Guzman, meaning his legal defense may be funded in part with profits from fentanyl sales made just a few miles from his cell.
    The Sinaloa group does not bother with retail-level commerce, according to the DEA. It uses New York to deliver large wholesale shipments to middlemen, typically local Dominican traffickers. Those groups distribute to markets in New England, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and other places where the opioid crisis is raging.
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