NW Bronx sees another major heroin bust

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Authorities arrested five men who allegedly used a Kingsbridge apartment as a stash house in a "major heroin supply chain" around 11:15 a.m. yesterday. 

Raids on 238 W. 238th St. — where the men were reportedly found packaging individual doses — as well as addresses in Upper Manhattan, Paterson, New Jersey and Long Island, turned up a total of $5 million in heroin, $115,000 in cash and two guns. A statement from city, state and federal agencies described thousands of doses of heroin as lying in the Kingsbridge apartment, though it did not specify the quantity of drugs there. 

Today’s crackdown, paces away from busy restaurants and stores on Broadway, marked the second major bust in the northwest Bronx within less than two weeks. On May 17, authorities recovered more than 154 pounds of heroin and arrested two men at an apartment on the outskirts of Fieldston.

 "There are a lot of Riverdale residents concerned about the heroin mills right now," noted Special Agent Erin Mulvey, a DEA spokeswoman, in an apparent reference to the May 17 drug bust, at 210 W. 251st St. “It’s unfortunate that... the Bronx borders all of the major throughways that drug traffickers use to bring theirs drugs across the northeast."

She said this week's bust had no connection with the one earlier this month.

“This investigation is the end of this ring,” Agent Mulvey said of the group allegedly working at the Kingsbridge apartment.

Five men were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia in the second degree: alleged ringleader Orlando Rosario-Concepcion, 38, whose residence was listed in Paterson, New Jersey; Rodolofo Abreu-Crisotomo, 31, of Hudson Heights in Manhattan; Jonathan Almonte, 27, of Washington Heights; Jean Carlos Rosario-Ortiz, 27, of Washington Heights; and Deckson Holguin-Rosario, 28, of Hudson Heights.

The investigation began in October 2014, after a heroin overdose in upstate Sullivan County, officials said.

"Drug dealers from the Bronx were driving all the way up to the rural areas of Sullivan County to peddle their poison to our children,” Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff said in a statement.

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