Two East Orange brothers were charged following an investigation into the seizure of 200 bricks of heroin from a multimillion-dollar heroin mill in New York City, authorities said.
The Essex County Sheriff’s Office led the investigation, identifying Shaheed Darling and Alhaqqah Darling as the key operators of a drugs pipeline that ran from Essex County to the Bronx, according to a statement.
According to police, the pair directed heroin trafficking activity from their East Orange residence.
According to investigators, a third man, Aziz Khwaja of Saddle Brook, trafficked narcotics from a processing facility in the Bronx.
Two search warrants were conducted at 2505 Aqueduct Ave. in the Bronx, and detectives seized more than eight kilograms of heroin and fentanyl, $61,350 in suspected narcotics proceeds, and 62 distinct heroin stamps, according to police.
The sheriff’s office says the mill produces thousands of bricks of heroin per week.
Sheriff’s officers discovered 188 bricks of heroin prepared for distribution, several of which bore street names including “Black Caesar,” “Sexy Red,” and “No Diddy,” police claimed.
The office also discovered a Springfield Armory XD-9 handgun and 69 rounds of 9mm ammo in Shaheed Darling’s residence. Authorities reported the gun’s theft from Matthews, North Carolina.
The Darling brothers and Khwaja have been accused of money laundering and multiple drug charges, according to officials.
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