Envy Apartment

UPPER WEST SIDE , NY — About 20 pounds of heroin and fentanyl were seized after federal, state and city law enforcement agencies raided an Central Park West apartment doubling as a drug mill, the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced Monday . Four men are facing charges for operating a heroin and fentanyl packaging operation out of the apartment following the sting led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ’s, NYPD, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York State Police . On Friday law enforcement officers were conducting surveillance on 448 Central Park west — located across from Central Park near West 105th Street — when they observed a man exit the building carrying two boxes and enter an Uber car, officials told Patch . Federal agents followed the vehicle and stopped it near 121st Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem, officials said. During the stop, agents saw that one of the boxes was open and detected a tan powdery substance , officials to...

NEW YORK -- Federal agents say they seized 20 pounds of fentanyl and heroin in an Aug. 4 raid of an apartment building in New York City's Upper West Side neighborhood , across the street from Central Park, reports CBS New York. The drugs are valued at more than $3 million, according to investigators.   Drug Enforcement Administration Special -Agent-in- Charge James Hunt said that much fentanyl could prove deadly to a large population if handled improperly. "Twenty pounds of fentanyl in its purest form is potent enough to kill half the population of New York City," Hunt said. "So it's not good to have in a residential building, obviously. You know, if somebody spills it coming out of the building, it could pose a danger to the public." Hunt said breathing in or ingesting fentanyl through pores can be fatal. He also noted that the location of the bust, in New York City's relatively low crime Upper West Side , is not necessarily a surprise. "They of...