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A task force with the state Attorney General’s Office seized more than 30 pounds of fentanyl worth more than $1.4 million from a Braddock home during an arrest that also turned up a half dozen cars and guns, officials said Thursday.
Domonique Taylor, 37, faces more than a dozen charges related to the drugs and guns police removed from his Moody Street home.
“Today, thanks to strong collaboration with our local law enforcement partners, we shut down a major drug trafficking operation in Western Pennsylvania,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement.
He called drug trafficking a violent enterprise and praised collaborative law enforcement approaches as “how we fight back against gun violence and those who push poisons onto our streets.”
Investigators from the AG’s office, Munhall, Monroeville, Penn Hills and Elizabeth Township police served a warrant on Taylor’s home March 11. The initial search of the home turned up dozens of items police listed as evidence, including various containers of cash, bags of marijuana, cocaine, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and various firearms.
Investigators also found two trailers, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and five cars: a Mercedes Benz, an H2 Hummer, a Ram truck, a GMC Acadia SUV and a Cadillac. They also seized more than $535,000 in cash.
Members of the task forced had been conducting surveillance on the home since the beginning of January, and they reported seeing Taylor moving buckets, boxes and duffel bags around the home and into and out of a trailer and garage near the home, according to the criminal complaint.
Police said Taylor owns 22 vehicles and numerous properties, and he told investigators he pays for everything in cash. He said he hasn’t filed taxes because “it’s just cash.” He admitted to moving drugs from his home to one of his trailers and to his garage because he feared his home being robbed, according to the complaint.
A search of the garage turned up 14 kilos of fentanyl in a black duffel bag, guns and ammo, a white Corvette and a black Impala, according to the complaint.
The 14 kilos of fentanyl, police said, equals out to 700,000 individual doses with a street value of more than $1.5 million.
Excellent 👍 catch more criminals in prison, where they belong.
ReplyDeleteWow our US cities getting infested with drugs coming from Mexico.
ReplyDeleteLast year Fent laced drugs, killed 90,000 which sounds quite high.
How many will die in 2022, with that shet that keeps coming from Mexico?
It wouldn't be possible if China hadn't been pushing the chemicals to Mexico for production.
DeleteLook at the bright side, "population control"
Delete11:34 why would someone really care about something so stupid when everyone's time here is short...Do you as a single individual really miss out on That much that is better others die so your wait to eat at a restaurant is shortened or your wait at the liquor store abd so on..Im sure youve been told but you sound like a VERY "me first always "kind of guy/gal and thats actually a mental disorder.So id advise you go get checked by a shrink.
DeleteIn that case its too bad your mom didnt take a "morning after pill "the morning after your conception...id rather live with some of these users than someone who thinks like you.
DeleteIf Americans weren't drug addicts then Mexico wouldn't be in this situation. Look yourself in the mirror before talking shit to others and take accountability for your drug addicted society. Pharmaceutical companies should be your focus on why Americans are Crack heads.
DeleteI get so tired of the blame game. That's as lame as when Mexico blames the US for guns. There's a criminal problem, and it's everywhere.
DeleteIt's good to comment, than not to comment at all.
DeleteCovid19 seems to be a form of population getting demished thanks to aWuhan, China.
Drugs coming from Mexico, especially laced with Fent is killing the population.
Obrador doing nothing about the Cartels running rampant is killing Innocents population demishing.
Putin getting Ukrainians killed is demishing human lives.
12:52 it's call "natural selection" el que es PENDEJO es PENDEJO!
DeleteSTFU Anonanus like your country hasn't done no harm to the world
Delete6:17 do you think because it has a scientific sounding name that I give 2 fks...how does it help you if you die tomorrow,it doesn't and don't give me any B's about your kids because you don't know how long they will be here either
DeleteAlways Rememner that republicans in congress got lobbied with millions of dollars to make opioids legal and even passed Big thick illegal Cuban Cigars around to their "then, friends on the other side of the aisle" to make the legislation Veto Proof and have Obama sign it, your Tea Party legislators at work...had to pay a price for the russian money they got to incorporate their tax free 501c or shit with the IRS by the hundreds of thousands.
DeleteAnd yet you keep on buying them, stop being yunkies and there will be no more drug trade from Mexico
ReplyDeleteJust human trafficking
Delete6:49 you can pay the coyote with your nalgas to keep your money in the bank for the Sancho.
DeleteAnd the white nationalist pushing for the second amendment and selling guns to these goons.
ReplyDeleteToo many CDS loads getting busted, that's what happens when cartels split
ReplyDeleteToo much snitching going on
Snitch card again oh brother.
DeleteIf you pay attention the guy doesn't seem to be Mexican and payed for his goods in cash so it's unlikely that this was a CDS load.
DeleteGood work Mexico 🇲🇽..dead american is good american
ReplyDeleteMexican mafia runs the US..blacks Italians and the others are their slaves
ReplyDeleteYes Troll whatever.
DeleteKensington was losing too much business to these guys.
Delete10:38 what you mean bro?
Delete1:54 The New York Times: Trapped by the 'Walmart of Heroin'
DeleteA Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the Rast Coast...Kensington...
By Jennifer Percy, Oct 10 2018
Good job China 🇨🇳 👍
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