Detectives began tracking the operation earlier this year, following the Darling brothers from their East Orange home into multiple counties, Essex County Sheriff Amir D. Jones said. Search warrants led authorities to Saddle Brook, Middlesex County, and ultimately 2505 Aqueduct Avenue in The Bronx, where the heroin was processed and packaged for sale, Jones said,
Inside the Bronx location, investigators found more than eight kilograms of heroin and fentanyl, $61,350 in suspected drug proceeds, and 62 different heroin stamps. Authorities believe “thousands of bricks of heroin were being produced weekly from the mill.”
Back in New Jersey, officers seized 188 bricks of suspected heroin weighing about 470 grams, along with a Springfield Armory XD-9 handgun and 69 rounds of 9mm ammunition. The firearm had been reported stolen out of Matthews, NC, Jones said…