Mexican-run heroin ring broken up in Moon, Beaver Falls
Monday, July 02, 2007

By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

State Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced his agents and police have broken up a heroin ring run by Mexicans in Beaver Falls and Moon.

Mr. Corbett said the ring has been distributing Mexican black tar heroin, a form that is often not as powerful as some others but which has been linked to at least one death.

Julio Ramierez-Garcia is accused of running the ring from apartments in Moon and Beaver Falls since arriving in the area from Mexico early last year.

Agents today were rounding up 16 street-level dealers, all of them Americans. They were also arresting 10 bosses, nine of them from Mexico. Another member of the ring has been deported to Mexico

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