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Heroin Overdose Case Study

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According to Jeremy Gorner and Tony Briscoe, Contact Reporters for The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Fire Department arrested two alleged gang members for drug charges over the weekend. This was in response to 74 heroin overdose cases in the past 72 hours last week. The arrests were made after the Chicago police and U.S Drug Enforcement Administration searched the West side to find the source of the bad batch of drugs.
Prosecutors stated Alfonzo Sylvester, 24, and Mario Wofford, 26, sold an undercover Chicago police officer “$720 worth of heroin on the West side on Friday.” Wofford was arrested and charged with possession with intent to deliver and had a set bond at “10,000” on the drug charge due to no violent history of crime. Cook County

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