Last week, Stafford Township’s Drug Enforcement Unit and the Atlantic City-based New Jersey State Police Crime Suppression South Unit seized a large quantity of heroin and fentanyl, as well as weapons and related evidence, and arrested one main distributor and three of his associates operating in Stafford and Atlantic County, Stafford Police announced.

The seven-month investigation concluded Tuesday, Oct. 18.

In April, the DEU responded to numerous heroin- and fentanyl-related overdoses, some fatal and some not, where wax…