Federal Prosecutors announced on Tuesday, April 14, the arrests of Brooklynite. Kareem Antoine Turner, 47, and a Bronx man, Alexander Daravina, 45, on narcotics and firearms charges for running a fentanyl manufacturing facility in a Brooklyn residential apartment building.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, Farhana Islam, special agent in charge of the New York task enforcement division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Michael Alfonso, acting special agent in charge of the New York field office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said the two were arrested on Monday, April 13, and presented on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, where they were ordered detained.
“As alleged, Kareem Turner and Alexander Daravina ran an industrial-scale pill mill in a Brooklyn apartment, pumping deadly fentanyl pills onto the streets of New York in mass quantities,” said Clayton. “Fentanyl is poison. It kills New Yorkers every day. If you are dealing in fentanyl, you are dealing in death. Together with our law enforcement partners, we will use all resources available to give New Yorkers what they want and what they deserve: the destruction of these deadly factories and their operators in federal prison.”…