Local DEA office reports 15 have died so far in 2015 from heroin overdoses
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said the arrest of John Haak and Francis Tessina underscores the dangers of the heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin being sold on the streets of Western New York.
Hochul, who has made a point of publicly issuing warnings about heroin, displayed a box of rat poison and suggested the heroin being bought by addicts is all too often fatal.
“You’re doing almost the same thing as injecting yourself with rat poison,” he said Wednesday.
Haak and Tessina appeared Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah McCarthy.
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