200 bricks of heroin seized were part of NYC drug mill, officials say

Two brothers from East Orange were charged after an investigation in which 200 bricks of heroin were seized from a multimillion-dollar heroin mill in New York City, authorities said.

The Essex County Sheriff’s Office led the investigation and identified Shaheed Darling and Alhaqqah Darling as the primary operators of a narcotics pipeline that stretched from Essex County to The Bronx, the office said in a statement.

The pair directed heroin trafficking activity from their East Orange home, officials said.

Investigators determined that a third man, Aziz Khwaja of Saddle Brook, transported narcotics from a processing location in The Bronx, the office said.

Two search warrants were executed at 2505 Aqueduct Ave. in The Bronx, where detectives recovered more than eight kilograms of heroin a