PORT JERVIS, N.Y. -- "If you are selling narcotics in our community or surrounding areas we will work with whoever we have to work with to target you and bring you to justice."

It was a clear message spoken by the Port Jervis police chief, William Worden. It came on the day his department, along with the Orange County Sheriff's Office's special operations group, conducted a raid and seized an unprecedented amount of heroin from an apartment in the city.

"On and off, these people have been targeted for seven years," said District Attorney David Hoovler at a press conference on Monday. "So they've been selling for seven years. What they essentially are here in the city of Port Jervis, they're mercenaries of death."

Found inside of home of Darren Biccum and Carolee Ruzanski, both of whom have prior felony convictions and have served time behind bars: 886 decks of heroin. Also seized were an eighth of an ounce of cocaine, prescription pills and close to $1,500 in cash.

"There is a strong nexus between the illicit sale of narcotics in our community and our part-one crimes such as burglaries, robberies, aggravated assaults and street robberies," explained Worden.

Police say the two high-level dealers got the drugs from Pennsylvania and New Jersey and were distributing an average of 20 to 30 bricks of heroin per week to lower-level street dealers. That's nearly $60,000 of heroin a month.

"This significant amount of heroin here is enough to get half the Fourth Ward high on a particular day," said Hoovler.

The two were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and could face more charges. If convicted, they could face anywhere from 2 to 12 years behind bars. But the district attorney says that's not enough.

"I can say that, based on what I see here and their criminal histories and the untold damage they've done to this community, no sentence in any of that range is good enough for a case like this," he said.

Also in the home at the time of the raid was the suspects' 8-month-old son, who is now in the care of Child Protective Services.