Bodies on Bodies (Interlude)

[Interlude]

The City of Buffalo is investigating reports of an off duty police officer overdosing on heroin

Erie County is in the grips of a public health crisis, the first ever involving drugs

But recently the assignments have changed. From your average chest pain call, to a heroin overdose. The race is on to bring a patient back from the dead

Many times we walk in, people are actually frantic. Family if they walked into someone in the bathroom, I mean, you may have found, maybe sitting on the toilet, staying away from people and they shoot up, and we find them collapsed into a bathtub.

A major story, 7 Eyewitness News is following here in western New York tonight, seven people rounded up in one of the biggest drug busts, in U.S. history

Now this is a three and a half million dollar, direct hit on the war on drugs, here's how it all breaks down tonight. Eighty eight pounds of cocaine, thirty five pounds of heroin, and seventeen pounds of Fentanyl. 7 Eyewitness News reporter Hanna Buehler, busy working this developing story for us tonight, Hannah?

Johanna Keith, now investigators say they have some of the major suspected drug lords and distributors, not only in western New York, but in the entire country, behind bars.