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DA: Biggest heroin bust ever on East End

By Vera Chinese

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Some of the money recovered during a heroin bust that targeted eight homes and netted 20 arrests, including 13 from the East End.

Local law enforcement agencies have busted up a massive heroin ring that saw some 2,500 bags of the deadly drug

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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