Possibly lethal heroin strain hits SJ streets

WOODBURY – Authorities have issued an urgent warning that potentially deadly heroin is circulating in South Jersey.

The heroin, stamped with the names “Red Snowman” and “Superstar,” was distributed in the past 24 hours, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said Saturday afternoon.

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Police in Gibbstown, Paulsboro and Franklin administered lifesaving doses of the antidote Narcan to three overdose victims overnight, authorities said. All three had used heroin stamped with one of those names, the prosecutor’s office said.

Anyone with doses of heroin stamped "Red Snowman" or "Superstar" may turn them over to local police departments in Gloucester County without facing repercussions, the prosecutor’s said.