Even police officers are astonished to learn just how easy it is to acquire heroin in their towns.

Detective Lt. Ronald Zellers of the New Kensington Police Department thought cocaine was the biggest problem on the streets of his city.

He admits now he was wrong.

In preparation for his speech at the Alle-Kiski Valley Drug Summit on Wednesday night, he went out the night before to talk to his criminal informants about what they were seeing on the street.

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