Ten people were arrested as a heroin distribution network centered on northern Colorado was dismantled, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and Longmont Police Department announced Friday.
According to the U.S. Attorney for Colorado, four of the defendants, including Brice Alday, of Longmont, face charges including conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin — the use of which resulted in death. All four of those defendants also face charges of distribution of heroin resulting in death.
According to the Daily Camera, the investigation was launched, in part, because of an unidentified Longmont resident’s fatal heroin overdose in March 2013.
In September 2014, the Longmont Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit (SEU), and the Federal Bureau of Investigations began a joint investigation into a heroin use and distribution ring working primarily in Longmont, but with connections to other communities in northern Colorado.
In addition to the federal defendants, 10 others were named in state charges for possession and/or distribution of a schedule I controlled substance.
Alday appeared in U.S. District Court in Denver on Friday.
Four defendants remain at large, and arrests are ongoing, officials said.
