Authorities: Three Men Arrested While Trying To Sell Drugs To School Students In Kensington

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Authorities say three drugs dealers who attempted to sell narcotics to school students in Philadelphia have been arrested. The attorney general's office in Pennsylvania announced charges against the men Friday.

Authorities say they seized 76 grams of drugs and an assault rifle from the three men who were near a school in Kensington. All face felony charges of drug possession, drug possession with the intent to deliver and conspiracy.

One of the men is charged with a weapons offense.

Investigators confiscated the rifle, three grams of heroin, 14 grams of methamphetamine and 59 grams of marijuana.

Kensington is a neighborhood of the city particularly hard-hit by the opioid epidemic.

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