5 Bergen County Overdoses Linked To Fentanyl Bust

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Authorities connected five Bergen County overdoses with a Newark opioid mill. Three people were arrested and 15 pounds of fentanyl were seized Sunday from the operation connected to 29 fatal overdoses around New Jersey.

The mill has been linked to 76 overdoses throughout the state, according to the Office of Attorney General and New Jersey State Police. Few areas were impacted more than Ocean County. Only Middlesex (14) and Union (13) Counties suffered more overdoses.

It was not immediately clear whether any of the Bergen County overdoses were fatal.

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Those arrested were: Whydia Durham, 46, of Union; Dereemus Botts, 34, of Irvington; and Nelson Johnson, 30, of Newark.

Drug traffickers typically package heroin and/or fentanyl in a wax fold, which is considered one dose. A lethal dose of fentanyl is two milligrams, according to the Center for Disease Control.

The drug traffickers also market their "brand" of drug by ink-stamping the outside of the wax fold with a unique image, word or phrase such as "Passion," "Thanos," "Thor," and "No Days Off," which are examples of the stamps recovered from this Newark mill.