Millions of dollars worth of drugs seized in largest drug bust in New Jersey history

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Prosecutors reported the largest drug bust ever in New Jersey.

The DEA says it seized loads of narcotics, weapons, and enough fentanyl to kill millions.

Investigators say the crime ring targeted people in Clifton, New Jersey.

"Law enforcement recovered over 40 kilograms of fentanyl, approximately 52 kilograms of meth, more than 2 kilograms of crack cocaine, also known as cocaine base," U.S. Attorney Robert Frazier said.

New York's Drug Enforcement Agency acted on a tip from a confidential informant.

Those agents, along with New Jersey officers, pulled together a surveillance operation outside two garages near an apartment complex in Clifton.

It took just three days to bring down a drug trade that agents say put millions of doses of dangerous drugs on the street.

47-year-old Nankel Stuardo Solorzano of East Orange was arrested during the bust.

For two days, agents watched drug transactions by two confidential informants, each saying they met with Solorzano in a parking lot.

The informants walked away with bags that agents then confiscated, each containing a kilo of Fentanyl-laced narcotics.

"An organization of this magnitude is supplying many of the mills in the state of New Jersey, New York, the Bronx, and Washington Heights. These kilos are distributed to people who are running the mills and then the people who are distributing them and killing Americans," Christopher Robers with the New York DEA said.

They also recovered an AK47, a shotgun, and several handguns.

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