Opinion ID: 2709585
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Heading: Seized Heroin

Text: During the trial, the government showed each of the customer witnesses the bags of heroin seized from Ford at the time of his arrest in August 2010. Kast, Jackson, Simms, and Freeman identified those bags as representative of the bags they had seen used when purchasing heroin through either Ford or Lockhart. Customers who bought multiple times in a single day and who therefore ended up buying from both Ford and Lockhart testified that the packaging in which they received the heroin was the same in the morning and the evening. The witnesses also testified to the number of bags and the frequency with which they purchased heroin from Ford and Lockhart during the summer of 2010. The government used the samples seized from Ford as a reference for the average weight of each bag. Detective Sayles, who had seized the seventy bags of heroin from Ford after his arrest, testified to his estimate that each small package contained an average of 0.13 gram of heroin.