Federal prosecutors announced on Thursday, Sept. 11, that six people have been charged with running a fentanyl mill in a Bronx apartment somewhere in the University Heights-Fordham Manor section of The Bronx.
Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Frank A. Tarentino, special agent in charge of the New York field division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch made the announcement, unsealing a complaint charging Jesus Javier Brito Rivera, Jose Alexis de la Cruz Mora, Jose Antonio de la Cruz Mora, Dany Rivera Sanchez, Joan Alberto Toribio Tavarez, and Freddys Rivera Quezada with conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, narcotics.
They said the defendants were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 9, inside a Bronx apartment on Aqueduct Avenue known as the “Aqueduct Avenue Fentanyl Mill,” while in the middle of processing more than eight kilograms of apparent fentanyl powder, producing thousands of individual packages of the drug for distribution. The exact address was not shared…