Crime & Safety

More Bad Heroin Causes Overdoses in Camden, Police Say

It's the third time in three months police have warned about a bad source of the drug in Camden.

A rash of overdoses Thursday has prompted a warning about heroin being sold in North Camden from the Camden County Police Department.

Several overdose victims were reported through the evening hours, police said, with victims experiencing breathing problems after taking the drug.

Camden County officers are working with other agencies at the county, state and federal level to investigate the bad heroin’s origin, police said.

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Anyone with information about the heroin being sold in Camden is asked to call the CCPD tipline at 856-757-7042.

The overdoses aren’t the first to be triggered by what police have said are bad drugs being sold in Camden—police have sent out warnings two other times in the last three months regarding potent or otherwise dangerous heroin being distributed in the city, and arrested one man in June for allegedly being connected to a source of the drugs.

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