Pennsylvania authorities have arrested nine men and charged three others in the takedown of an alleged heroin distribution network that they say sold more than $16 million worth of drugs each year.
Acting Attorney General Bill Ryan said the business-like operation was based in Philadelphia and sold drugs to mostly lower-level dealers across eastern and central Pennsylvania.
He said customers would call the network minutes before they picked up drugs. Lower-level employees in the network would meet the customers in their cars and do the transactions.
He said buyers came from as far as the Harrisburg area.
The suspects are being prosecuted in Bucks County, where two of them were allegedly major street-level drug dealers.
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