Federal agents and local cops Wednesday arrested 18 out of 19 people indicted on charges of operating a heroin-dealing ring in Fair Haven.
The investigation — entitled “Operation Northern Corridor — involved “the use of court-authorized wiretaps, physical surveillance and controlled purchases of heroin from wholesale and street-level distributors operating in the area of Ferry Street, Grand Avenue and Blatchley Avenue in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood,” according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency conducted the investigation along with New Haven police.
One indicted man remains at large.
Also on Wednesday, New Haven police announced they’ve arrested a 17-year-old alleged shooter and 17-year-old and 22-year-old alleged accomplices in connection with the April 3, 2014, murder of 16-year-old Riverside Academy student Torrence “TJ” Gamble on Daggett Street. Read more about that case here and here. Detective Michael Wuchek led the team that cracked the case.
