{"id":804332,"date":"2026-05-18T04:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:47:23","slug":"ag-sunday-partners-disband-pa-wide-multi-million-dollar-fentanyl-trafficking-operation-with-distribution-base-in-ne-phila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804332\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Sunday, Partners Disband Pa.-Wide Multi-Million-Dollar, Fentanyl Trafficking Operation with Distribution Base in NE Phila."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pennwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/processed-EC3C933F-E355-4694-BB2E-C328B4D40BBD-scaled-1.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/processed-EC3C933F-E355-4694-BB2E-C328B4D40BBD-scaled-1-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"processed-EC3C933F-E355-4694-BB2E-C328B4D40BBD-scaled\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Dave Sunday, in collaboration with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, announced the takedown of an upper-level, fentanyl-trafficking operation based in Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Three individuals were charged and more than five kilograms of fentanyl\u00a0\u2014 approximately $2 million worth \u2014 was seized from homes on Wellington Street and Montague Street.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests and seizures were the culmination of a collaborative investigation by the Office of Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, Philadelphia Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations,\u00a0Liberty Mid-Atlantic High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), Pennsylvania State Police, and the Philadelphia Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Johan Manuel Almonte-Ortiz, 26; Argedys Noel De La Cruz Jerez, 33; and Domingo Cedeno-Pimentel, 37, are charged with felony drug trafficking, conspiracy, and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks another milestone in efforts to rid the Commonwealth of predatory fentanyl traffickers who value dollars over human lives,\u201d Attorney General Sunday said. \u201cWith our partners, we seized more than 2\u00bd million doses of fentanyl \u2014 each dose with the potential and potency to end a life. This statewide trafficking pipeline that carried fentanyl in and around Philadelphia and to the western part of the Commonwealth is now closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement served search warrants at homes on Wellington Street and Montague Street this week, interrupting a fentanyl packaging operation at the Wellington Street home.<\/p>\n<p>There, nearly 100,000 packets of fentanyl \u2014 ready for street sales \u2014 were seized, along with nearly three kilograms of bulk fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also seized more than 100 different stamps, used to brand the fentanyl for street sales.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of the investigation, nearly seven kilograms of fentanyl were seized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennwatchmedia.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PW_2024_LeaderAd\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PW_2024_LeaderAd.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorney General Dave Sunday, in collaboration with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, announced the takedown of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-804332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116593771162591292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}