'Largest Drug Bust Ever In New England' Includes Heart-Shaped Fentanyl

LYNN, MA — FBI Boston seized over 200 pounds of suspected controlled substances from a home in Lynn Wednesday in what is believed to be one of the largest single-location seizures of controlled substances in New England history, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Three suspects—Emilio "6″ Garcia, Sebastien "Bash" Bejin, and Deiby Felix, members of a large-scale drug trafficking organization on the North Shore—are facing federal charges relating to the distribution of controlled substances and manufacturing, Acting United States Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua S. Levy said in a news conference Monday. Garcia is the alleged ring leader.

Among the drugs seized from the Western Avenue home, where multiple children live, is a bag containing around 9.2 kilos of fentanyl designed to look like heart-shaped candy, officials said.

Charging documents show that the seizures also include around 17.6 kilograms of raw methamphetamine, which equates to around 3.5 million individual doses, according to officials. In addition, around 28 kilograms of counterfeit Percocet pills—about 280,000 of which contained fentanyl—90,000 pills of counterfeit Adderall, around 900,000 doses of a brown, powder-like substance with fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine, and five guns were seized.

"If you’re adding up those numbers, there are more doses seized in this one house in Lynn than there are people in Massachusetts, and the street value is close to $8 million," Levy said.

Wednesday's arrest come amid an ongoing investigation into an overdose death in Salem in July 2023.

The suspect in the Salem overdose death, identified as only "L.G" in the affidavit, seems to have had a connection to Bejin and has been charged in Lynn District Court and indicted in Essex Superior Court, court documents show.

Last year alone, 2,357 Massachussetts residents died of a drug overdose, Levy said during Monday's news conference.

"The Justice Department is focused on attacking every link in the global fentanyl trafficking chain, and we will not stop until those responsible for the fentanyl poisoning epidemic are brought to justice," Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a news release from the Department of Justice Monday. "We also continue to urge families to have open and honest conversations about the urgent threat posed by this epidemic, and the fact that just one pill can kill."