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		</div><h6 id="blox-asset-title"><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">31 suspected members of narcotics dealing rings charged in New York, New Jersey and an unnamed foreign country</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">The case began with agents surveilling street-level drug transaction in Lakewood, NJ </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">It led to agents arresting members of drug rings operating in Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic and Union counties in New Jersey</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">It also led to uncovering narcotics activities in Bronx, New York City, and unidentified foreign country </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">Drug facilities in Bloomfield, Jackson, Sayreville, Paterson, Piscataway and Plainfield dismantled </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">Agents broke up nine drug production facilities, seized 90,000 doses of heroin, 20 pounds of cocaine, hundreds of prescription opioid pills</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong><span class="blox-headline entry-title">Authorities also seized 18 handguns, 2 rifles, $850,000 in cash, 27 vehicles worth more than $700,000</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span class="blox-headline entry-title"><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>Cops still seeking three of the 31 suspects charged in the case as of Friday, in ongoing investi</strong>gations</span></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290547" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Joseph-Coronato-1.jpg" alt="Joseph Coronato 1.jpg" width="1140" height="641" /><strong>Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato briefs media on the mega-narco bust</strong></h6>
<p>Surveillance of street corner drug deal at the Jersey shore has led authorities to busting drug dealing rings operating in two states and a foreign country, as well as the recovery of close to $1million cash, as well as well, as 27 luxury vehicles from the drug rings<br />
Authorities in Ocean County say 31 people have been charged as part of the rings that dealt opioids and other drugs throughout New Jersey, in the Bronx, New York, and operated in at least one other country.<br />
Authorities broke up nine drug production facilities, seized 90,000 doses of heroin, nearly 20 pounds of cocaine and hundreds of prescription opioid pills, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato.<br />
&#8220;Ocean County has been designated as ground zero in the opioid epidemic in New Jersey,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is something we need to address,&#8221; Coronato said.<br />
The case was the county&#8217;s first after being added to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration &#8220;High Intensity Drug Trafficking&#8221; task force.<br />
Coronato told the gathered media that the case began with officers monitoring street-level drug transaction in Lakewood, New Jersey. The surveillance netted dealers who were subsequently arrested. Officers then followed the chain of distribution, which led them to narcotics activity in Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic and Union counties. The track also led to the Bronx in New York City, and a foreign country investigators wouldn&#8217;t identify.<br />
Drug facilities in Bloomfield, Jackson, Sayreville, Paterson, Piscataway and Plainfield were dismantled, authorities said.</p>
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<h6 class="gallery-item image slick-slide slick-cloned" data-slick-index="-1" aria-hidden="true"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290549" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Jennifer-Davenport-1.jpg" alt="Jennifer Davenport 1.jpg" width="768" height="576" /><strong>First New Jersey Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Davenport [photo], at a press conference Friday, March 9, 2018, in Toms River, NJ, to announced the drug charges against 31 people in New Jersey, New York and one foreign country that he was not identified. </strong></h6>
<div class="gallery-item image slick-slide slick-cloned" data-slick-index="4" aria-hidden="true">Authorities seized 18 handguns, a rifle and an AK-47 assault weapon, along with nearly $850,000 in cash and 27 vehicles worth more than $700,000.<br />
Police were still seeking three of the 31 suspects charged in the case as of Friday, and said the investigation remains ongoing.</div>
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