Westchester Insider: Westchester County: 5/19 AT 2PM - WESTCHESTER COUNTY POLICE HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN REMOVING DEADLY FENTANYL FROM WESTCHESTER'S STREETS.

 

WESTCHESTER COUNTY POLICE HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN REMOVING DEADLY FENTANYL FROM WESTCHESTER’S STREETS.

 

(White Plains, NY) – Beginning in June 2020, in response to the opioid epidemic and a rising number of overdose deaths, Westchester County Police launched a Narcotics Reduction Program that targeted large-scale suppliers of fentanyl and other illegal narcotics.

 

Since that time, the County Police and federal partners have seized enormous quantities of fentanyl and fentanyl-laced pills and cocaine, including:

 

·         453,422 bags of fentanyl packaged for individual sale;

·         94 kilograms of fentanyl packaged in bulk;

Several dozen suspects have been charged by federal prosecutors with significant drug-trafficking crimes.

 

 

Thursday, May 19

2 p.m.

Michaelian Office Building

Press Room – 9^th Floor

148 Martine Avenue

White Plains, NY 10601