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A group dubbed by law enforcement the 'Fentanyl Robbery Gang' would lure victims with the promise of prostitution and then drug them — resulting in four deaths — in a crime ring that stretched from New Hampshire to Virginia, the U.S. Justice Department announced. All seven members of the group, some of whom were affiliated with New York gangs, are in custody, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a release on Friday.
They would then allegedly offer the individuals narcotics laced with fentanyl in an attempt to incapacitate them, forcing them to take it if they refused or 'surreptitiously introducing it into the victim’s body' before robbing them of money and other valuables, according to the Department of Justice. 'If a victim was not incapacitated, or not incapacitated quickly enough, members of the F.R.G.
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