DEA: New York City is hub for drug cartels & fentanyl distribution
The DEA estimates they seized about 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl worth about $1.5 million in a recent drug bust in the Bronx.
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Ali Bauman is a New York Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist who has been a general assignment reporter for CBS News New York since spring 2016. Since November 2024, Bauman is also the northeast correspondent for CBS Saturday Mornings and the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News. Prior to joining CBS New York, Bauman was a multiskilled journalist for News 12 the Bronx and News 12 Brooklyn. While attending S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Bauman worked part-time as a multimedia journalist for WBNG-TV Action News in Binghamton, New York. Bauman was the first and only undergraduate student to be accepted to the 2014 Newhouse Capstone in Washington, D.C. where she was the Capitol Hill correspondent for WETM-TV in Elmira, New York. She is proficient in Spanish, and in addition to her studies at Syracuse, she studied abroad in Madrid, Spain. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with dual majors in Broadcast & Digital Journalism and Political Science.
The DEA estimates they seized about 1 million lethal doses of fentanyl worth about $1.5 million in a recent drug bust in the Bronx.
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