Police recovered guns and drugs in a Queens family’s home during a search warrant on Sept. 20th.
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Narcotics officers raided a Queens drug den at a home on Wednesday morning, arresting family members after finding allegedly fentanyl-laced drugs and guns just steps away from a child’s bedroom.
This arrest comes on the heels of a pledge that Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD made on Monday to crackdown on drug trafficking following last week’s death of a 1-year-old child exposed to fentanyl at a Bronx day care center.
According to Jerry O’Sullivan, commanding officer of Queens South Detective Squad, the Sept. 20 raid in Queens Village was a joint operation by 105th Precinct field intelligence officers and the Queens South Narcotics Squad.
During the early hours of Wednesday morning, police descended upon the residence at 208-08 100th Ave. in what was the culmination of a longtime investigation into both drugs and firearms. They took no chances as they entered the location, as the officers hoisted ballistic shields to guard against possible gunfire.
Inside locations, police reported, the officers found a rifle, several pistols, and four kilos of cocaine and heroin they believe had been laced with fentanyl —all in the close proximity of a 10-year-old child.
“This was a single-family house, multiple floors. There was a second-floor bedroom where this young child was sleeping in his room, right across the hall from that child was this recovery of dangerous drugs,” O’Sullivan said. “In addition to that, we go down to the basement. That’s where you see all those firearms we recovered.”
O’Sullivan told amNewYork Metro that the squad was able to detect what they believed to be fentanyl based on its smell, but it will be sent to a lab to be officially analyzed.
Fentanyl is said to be 50 times more potent as heroin, and can be lethal in doses as small as 2 mg. Drug dealers are known to often cut fentanyl into other illicit…
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