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Question - On April 11, 2018, police in New York City seized nearly $600,000 in cash, a Lamborghini, four guns, and roughly 22 pounds of narcotics in a drug bust of a drug ring that allegedly flooded Brooklyn and Queens with deadly fentanyl.
A year-long wiretap investigation and the overdose deaths of a 22-year-old man in Bay Ridge in 2016 and a 42-year-old man in Kew Gardens in 2017 led to the drug dealers. At the residence heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana were recovered.
As a CSI of the NYPD crime scene unit, you are responding with the narcotics officers to the crime scene and are requested to perform preliminary testing for the drugs found at the scene.
What preliminary test do you use for heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine?
What is the microcrystalline test and what drugs does it identify?
What protective gear would you wear handling and testing this evidence?