Heroin and fentanyl detected in purple putty
Posted May 28, 2018 07:26:00 PM.
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Analysis by Health Canada shows that a purple putty-like substance, seized in Ottawa earlier this month, contained heroin and fentanyl.
The Ottawa Police Service raided an apartment on Carillon Street near Vanier Pkwy on May 9 and arrested a man after finding a number of drugs, including cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, hydromorphone, as well as the purple putty-like substance that investigators suspected contained fentanyl.
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