$2.3M worth of heroin found in Pittsburgh’s Fineview neighborhood

PITTSBURGH — Over 4,600 bricks of heroin were found in Pittsburgh’s Fineview neighborhood.

Pittsburgh police said officers were called to the area of Glenrose Street Wednesday after a person found a suitcase filled with suspected narcotics.

Pittsburgh police say the person who found the suitcase, immediately called police. Officers and their K-9′s came here and searched the area. The K-9′s also found a backpack full of heroin that was packaged the same way the drugs were in the suitcase.

In total, detectives recovered 4,688 bricks of heroin. The street value is estimated to be $2.3 million.

Gary Murray has lived in the Fineview area for 27 years.

“Whoa! That’s awful,” Murray said. “I never heard of it up like through this area here, um that sort of scares me knowing that it’s so close now.”

Murray and his dog Luna walk along this road often. He says - this recent find along his usual path will definitely put him on alert.

“Just gonna be more on the lookout yeah..like what if someone’s dog would’ve gotten that? If it was that type of suitcase that could’ve got inside or something,” Murray said.

Fortunately, no one did. The mobile crime unit took all of the drugs back to Pittsburgh Police headquarters.

Pittsburgh police say this remains an open case. It’s unclear how the suitcase and backpack ended up on Glenrose Street.

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