11 heroin mill workers nabbed as drug investigators raid two multi-million dollar Bronx dope factories

Authorities say operation netted up to $1.5 million a week

Pile of glassine envelopes of heroin, with brand name Hot Sauce, seized in drug raid.

Narcotics investigators have busted two multi-million dollar Bronx heroin mills, arresting 11 assembly line workers.


The dope factories were churning out roughly three kilograms of heroin a week, with each kilo fetching as much as $500,000 in street value.

Detectives from the city’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan’s office found 24,000 glassine envelopes of dope - worth about $240,000 - in apartments at 1694 Selwyn Ave. in Mount Eden and 2287 Loring Place in University Heights.

"This was a significant operation," said Kati Cornell, spokeswoman for Brennan’s office.

“The profit margin is huge with heroin. They could have been making millions."

The suspects were wearing the same “uniforms” of white tank tops and dark pants when cops interrupted their nefarious work last Wednesday night.

Several tried to vault out windows to escape, and one huddled under a bed while another hid in a bathroom.

The dramatic raids followed a two-week investigation by the detectives from Manhattan South Narcotics.

The mills were the heart of an extensive operation that involved manufacturing, packaging and distributing heroin in vials, glassines and gelatin capsules.

They stamped the products with brand names like Hot Sauce, Lady Blue, Redd Fox, Cartier and Cristal.

Adrian Hunt, 21, Ricardo Gonzalez, 23 and Katherine Reynoso, 21 were nabbed at 1694 Selwyn Ave., where detectives recovered 750 glassines of heroin from a shoebox and 838 from dresser drawers in two bedrooms.

Investigators also found numerous grinders, scales, empty glassines and marijuana plants, according to court documents.

Edulcido Genao, 40, Julio Genao-Alba, 33, Fernandez Frias, 21, Alfredo Frias, 42, Jaquez Reynoso, 37, Eduardo Disla, 37, Aris Heredia, 23 and Daniel Frias, 31, were arrested at 2287 Loring Pl., surrounded by heroin, grinders, sifters, tape and rubber bands.

Edulcido Genao was the ringleader of the operation, cops said. Various envelope stamps were recovered from the apartments, indicating a wide distribution network that included a deep bullpen of street dealers, cops said.

The 11 suspects were charged with drug possession and drug paraphernalia possession.

The dope was sold in Manhattan and New Jersey. The mills were run by Dominican crooks using heroin that came from Colombia, investigators said.

Turning out three kilos of heroin a week, the vast illegal operation may have pulled down as much as $6 million a month.

Investigators have yet to link the ring to violent crime and neighbors of the Bronx apartments told cops they were unaware of the dope factories.

But investigators learned the two mills were related when a suspect under surveillance took a package from one to the other.