Tag: Heroin

Investigative agencies include the Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the Drug Enforcement Administration; and the Wheeling Police Department.

"Bad batches" make their way to the Wheeling area far too often.

The text messages are received only by those who have registered online.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Carly Nogay is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government.

The prosecutor's conviction record speaks for itself.

A "bad batch" caused a recent rash of death in the Wheeling area.

The abuse continues, but the attention to it has diminished.

The event is scheduled for September 1.

The undercover unit includes local, state, and federal members of law enforcement.

The center is located at 1479 3rd Street in Brilliant, Ohio.

More than 15 overdoses have been reported in the past week alone.

Those are most of the drugs that have killed in this Upper Ohio Valley, according to law enforcement officials in Ohio, Marshall, and Belmont counties. The last decade, though, has been dominated by overdoses involving opioids, including heroin because snorting or injecting the Schedule 1 narcotic is much cheaper than prescription pills.