PITTSBURGH—Investigators were working on arrests linked to roughly 30 nonfatal heroin overdoses in recent days as federal and local law enforcement teamed up in hopes of getting ahead of western Pennsylvania’s growing heroin epidemic.
Dangerous batches of heroin—some laced with the powerful painkiller fentanyl—have caused the overdoses in Cambria and Washington counties, U.S. Attorney David Hickton said at a news conference Wednesday. The Pittsburgh-based prosecutor oversees 25 counties.
