MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) — Four-hundred-thousand doses of fentanyl, heroine and xylazine, otherwise known as tranq, have been taken off the streets.
Now officials said two men have been arrested for allegedly being the organizers behind the drug operation, that was supposedly ran out of a home in Mayfair.
The 2700 block of Elbridge Street in Philadelphia’s Mayfair neighborhood is where you used to find children playing.
But Shannon Mulhern said that’s all changed with crime and drugs ravaging the area.
“This is why I don’t live here and am moving to Jersey,” Mulhern said.
But she said she never knew the people who are allegedly helping fuel, what she believes, is a growing problem were nearly right at the doorstep of where she used to live.
A police investigation revealed a drug house was just steps away.
“I never knew that there was a drug house. They had to be new people,” Mulhern said.