Bad heroin tied to 6 deaths in NYC

[Renew Deal]

Police taking aim at downtown scourge

BY ALISON GENDAR, RICH SCHAPIRO and ROBERT F. MOORE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

A deadly batch of heroin may have killed six people over five days in downtown Manhattan - including two college coeds found with fresh needle marks on their arms, police and health officials warned yesterday.
The tainted smack could be fatally pure or altered with a poisonous additive.

"We are taking steps to locate and isolate the source and arrest whoever might be behind it," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Alarmed by the number of deaths and the discovery that the fatalities were in such a narrow swath of Manhattan - below 14th St. - police urged expedited toxicology tests on the victims, including the 18-year-old students Maria Pesantez and Mellie Carballo.
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http://nydailynews.com/front/story/338059p-288654c.html

[Dez]

1. Prohibition kills. n/t

[whistle]

2. Is this the stuff coming out of Afghanistan? Much of that has....

...traces of agent orange type defoliants in it from U.S. attempts to eradicate the crops over there.

[DBoon]

3. a terrorist would deliberately contaminate the heroin

just putting on the ol' tinfoil hat

Like with a deadly, communicable disease?

[K-W]

4. Casualities of the drug war. EOM