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The City of Buffalo is investigating reports of an off duty police officer overdosing on heroin
Erie County is in the grips of a public health crisis, the first ever involving drugs
But recently the assignments have changed. From your average chest pain call, to a heroin overdose. The race is on to bring a patient back from the dead
Many times we walk in, people are actually frantic. Family if they walked into someone in the bathroom. I mean you may have found, maybe sitting on the toilet, staying away from people and they shoot up and we find them collapsed into a bathtub.
A major story, 7 Eyewitness News is following in here in western New York tonight. Seven people rounded up in one of the biggest drug busts in U.S. history
Now this is a three and a half million dollar, direct hit on the war on drugs, here's how it all breaks down tonight. Eighty eighty pounds of cocaine, thirty five pounds of heroin, and seventeen pounds of fentanyl. 7 Eyewitness News reporter Hanna Buehler, busy working this developing story for us tonight, Hannah?
Johanna Keith, now investigators say they have some of the major suspected drug lords and distributors, not only in western New York but in the entire country behind bars.