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Police Make Major Drug Bust In Western Mass.

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published November 13, 2015 at 12:26 PM EST
Springfield police display bags of heroin and guns seized from a home in what was described as one of the largest heroin busts in the city in recent memory
Springfield Police Dept
Springfield police display bags of heroin and guns seized from a home in what was described as one of the largest heroin busts in the city in recent memory
Springfield police display bags of heroin and guns seized from a home in what was described as one of the largest heroin busts in the city in recent memory
Credit Springfield Police Dept
Springfield police display bags of heroin and guns seized from a home in what was described as one of the largest heroin busts in the city in recent memory

Police in Springfield, Massachusetts are reporting one of the biggest heroin busts in the city in recent history.

Police, after what was described as a lengthy investigation, raided a home in the city’s Liberty Heights neighborhood Thursday night, and seized nearly 22,000 bags of heroin, three handguns, and about $3,000 cash. 

Springfield Police Dept. spokesman Sgt. John Delaney said the heroin has a street value estimated at $110,000.

"This heroin was packaged and ready for sale by gang members and other people through western Massachusetts, not just in Springfield, but I am sure it would affect some outlying towns, " said Delaney.

Police arrested two men on charges of trafficking in heroin and illegal firearms possession. Springfield detectives were assisted by member of the Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force and the DEA , according to Delaney.

He said Springfield police have attempted to target major heroin dealers and have made scores of arrests during the last two years.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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