Attorney General Dave Sunday announced last week the takedown of a large fentanyl-trafficking operation based in Northeast Philadelphia.

More than five kilograms of fentanyl worth approximately $2 million was seized from homes on Wellington Street and Montague Street. Law enforcement served search warrants at the homes and seized nearly 100,000 packets of fentanyl ready for street sales along with nearly three kilograms of bulk fentanyl. Investigators also seized more than 100 different stamps used to brand the fentanyl for street sales.

Throughout the course of the investigation, nearly seven kilograms of fentanyl were seized, the announcement said.

Johan Manuel Almonte-Ortiz, 26; Argedys Noel De La Cruz Jerez, 33; and Domingo Cedeno-Pimentel, 37, are charged with felony drug trafficking, conspiracy, and related offenses. Federal, state, and local law enforcement partners collaborated in the arrests and seizures, according to the announcement.

The investigation is ongoing, Attorney General Sunday said.

“Today marks another milestone in efforts to rid the Commonwealth of predatory fentanyl traffickers who value dollars over human lives,” Sunday said. “With our partners, we seized more than 2½ million doses of fentanyl — each dose with the potential and potency to end a life. This statewide trafficking pipeline that carried fentanyl in and around Philadelphia and to the western part of the Commonwealth is now closed.”

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Photo: AG Sunday’s Office