Holyoke `Operation Full Throttle` includes murder, heroin, cocaine

Holyoke 'Operation Full Throttle' includes murder, heroin, cocaine, gun charges
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Holyoke 'Operation Full Throttle' includes murder, heroin,
cocaine, gun charges
Mike Plaisance | mplaisance@repub.com By Mike Plaisance | mplaisance@repub.com
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on April 16, 2015 at 7:26 PM, updated April 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM
This elaborates on a story posted at 4:18 p.m. Thursday, April 16, 2015: Holyoke 'Operation Full
Throttle' nets 211 arrests, 9,200 heroin bags, 5 guns
HOLYOKE — Conspiracy to commit murder. Illegal possession of a firearm. Distribution of heroin.
Distribution of cocaine. Soliciting sex.
The charges speak of violence and neighborhood plagues related to the arrests (see below) of 211 men
and women made by city, state and federal police in the 13-day "Operation Full Throttle" announced
Thursday (April 16).
"People have to be held accountable for their actions," Police Chief James M. Neiswanger said.
Of the total, 24 people were arrested at a 40-unit apartment block at Appleton and Elm streets that has
drawn police to deal with hundreds of crimes in the past few years, he said.
Police seized 9,250 plastic bags of heroin, more than 1,100 grams of cocaine, four handguns, an assault rifle
and $60,000 cash, he said.
The sweep began April 3 with police investigating a shooting behind 200 Oak St. that Neiswanger said
resulted in prevention of a murder, and continued to Thursday morning.
The arrests were made as a result of raids, traffic stops and investigations in the Downtown, Churchill, South
Holyoke and the Flats neighborhoods, he said.
Police provided names and charges of only about 111 of the 211 people arrested because no one was
available to type in the rest of the information, Lt. James Albert said.
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