Agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the United States and police have arrested ten Dominicans, including two women, who made up a group of drug dealers, and confiscated heroin from them worth US$2 million, along with weapons and cash.
The group was supposedly led by Wladimir Rosa Reyes, with his accomplices Antonio del Orbe Mercedes, Daniel García Mithill, Antonio del Orbe, Gisela Guzmán Hernández, Norlisa Jiménez, Andy Zayas, Osvaldo Monegro, Alcibíades de los Santos Mateo and José Duarte. They were all arrested during raids carried out on Thursday, 1 June 2017, in the Morrisania area of the Bronx. They are also linked to the deaths by overdoes of at least four addicts who they supplied heroin to.
The DEA revealed that they had a laboratory for processing the drugs in one of the apartments that was raided.
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Diario Libre
7 June 2017
