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From WKRN:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – An investigation that began last August into two major heroin distribution groups operating in Nashville led to a major bust last week.
Authorities seized eight pounds of heroin, more than $80,000 in cash, 12 vehicles and arrested 10 people. …
Both heroin organizations are based in Mexico. Dispatchers in Mexico with 615 area code phone numbers took orders from prospective buyers and arranged for drivers in Nashville to meet customers in parking lots throughout the city…
Wednesday morning, detectives arrested several members of both organizations as they attempted to distribute heroin in various public parking lots…
Detectives believe [the suspects] have been distributing heroin in the area for more than two months throughout south Nashville and Brentwood.
Authorities said their base operation was at a motel where more than two pounds of heroin and cash were seized.
Law enforcement and state officials said Thursday they believe the illegal drug once popular in the 1960s and 70s is making a comeback in Tennessee.
E. Douglas Varney, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services… has been traveling throughout the state all year addressing the Prescription Drug Abuse epidemic which is the No. 1 drug problem in the state and how it’s also linked to the resurgence of heroin statewide…
Health experts say heroin has become the cheaper alternative to the more costly and the increasingly harder-to-come-by pain pills.
“We’re really going to try and interdict these drugs on the front end we’re really committed in our department to help people deal with their addiction,” said Varney.