Alleged drug ring used violence to support operation

Newly-unsealed court records detail how authorities allege a Middletown-based group going by the name "ALL STATE" sold highly addictive opioids and used violence to support the illegal enterprise. Between October 2018 and May 2019, the group relied on revenue from the storage, production, distribution and transportation of heroin and fentanyl, according to the indictment. They used stash houses and trap houses to store drugs, equipment and money, spoke in code and carried guns to intimidate rivals and "punish anyone who stood in their way," the indictment states.