Anyone in Southeast NH and Ma knows about these guys. I wrote in the recent past how into heroin the Dominicans are. These gangs are all huge throughout New England. The problem is, they got 100,000 ghettoes thugs to replace this gang. Maybe another heroin competitive gang took out these guys to drum up new business...
By PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
CONCORD -- An 18-month investigation uncovered a multi-million dollar heroin ring that has operated for three years supplying kilograms of the deadly drug across northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, authorities said Wednesday.
Twenty-seven people have been indicted for participating in the drug trafficking operation, which allegedly also dealt in fentanyl and was headed mainly by individuals from the Dominican Republic who would imported drugs from Mexico.
Eighty percent of the heroin distributed in New England comes from the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, according to Michael J. Ferguson, Drug Enforcement Administration Agent in Charge, New England Field Division. He said the heroin being sold can be up to 94 percent pure, making it deadly, but it becomes deadlier yet when cut with the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
"Two milligrams of fentanyl is like two grains of salt and is enough to kill you," said Ferguson.
U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice said it has yet to be determined how many of the hundreds of drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire could be attributable to these traffickers.
Ferguson said the drug operation was in business to make money.
"They don't care that people are dying," he said. "They don't use it themselves. If it wreaks harm, then so be it."...
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