According to authorities, more than two dozen men and women have been charged in a massive conspiracy to take over a city neighborhood through violence and intimidation in order to sell heroin.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced 194 charges against the suspects; all of them are from New Jersey except for one individual from Brooklyn.
“This impressive list of charges, levied against 26 gang members who blatantly conducted an illicit drug operation aimed at destroying Newark families through violence and addiction, is both appropriate and significant,” Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda Sr. said…