Four men and a million bags of heroin are now in police custody after a midnight raid on a dope mill in the Bronx on Thursday.
The whopping operation extended to upstate New York, investigators claim, with distribution points in Long Island and New Jersey as well.
On May 28, 2015, the group of suspects were busted in a sweltering apartment near Van Cortlandt Park, just as they were closing up shop and retiring for the night.
Police say that one Orlando Rosario-Concepcion is the actual ringleader of the Bronx heroin mill, and that the 31-year-old’s associates, Jonathan Almonte, 29, Jean Carlos Rosario-Ortiz, 29, and Rodolofo Abreu-Cristolomo, 31, were his willing pals in crime.
Two of those drug dealers attempted to leap out a window to a fire escape when authorities burst into their den of inequity.
In addition to the four men and a million bags of heroin, detectives also seized about $100,000 in cash, user paraphernalia, and firearms.
Thursday’s raid is the culmination of a months-long investigation into the Bronx drug ring which was commenced in earnest after a string of “customer” fatalities -- a developing and troubling trend in what is fast becoming America’s heroin overdose plague.
