Prosecutors reported the largest drug bust ever in New Jersey.
The DEA claims it seized large amounts of narcotics, guns, and enough fentanyl to kill millions.
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Investigators believe the crime ring targeted individuals in Clifton, New Jersey. According to U.S. Attorney Robert Frazier, law enforcement seized more than 40 kilograms of fentanyl, about 52 kilograms of meth, and more than 2 kilograms of crack cocaine, also known as cocaine base.
A confidential informant sent a tip to New York’s Drug Enforcement Agency, which responded.
These agents, working with New Jersey authorities, coordinated a surveillance operation outside two garages near an apartment complex in Clifton.
It just took three days to shut down a drug trade that authorities claim put millions of dosages of hazardous medicines on the streets.
Nankel Stuardo Solorzano, 47, of East Orange, was arrested during the raid.
Agents monitored cocaine transactions for two days using two confidential informants, both of whom claimed to have met with Solorzano in a parking lot.
The informants went away with packages containing a kilogram of Fentanyl-laced narcotics, which agents later confiscated.
“An organization of this magnitude is supplying many of the mills in the state of New Jersey, New York, the Bronx, and Washington Heights. These kilos are distributed to people who are running the mills and then the people who are distributing them and killing Americans,” Christopher Robers with the New York DEA said.
They also retrieved an AK47, a shotgun, and various handguns.
