Boston Police seized more than two kilograms of fentanyl and arrested five suspects following an investigation spurred by community complaints of suspected drug activity.

The investigation was focused on what police call the “Southwest Corridor area,” so named for the park that runs from the South End to Jamaica Plain, where community members have complained of increased drug activity since the shutdown of the Mass and Cass tent-city and open-air drug market.

“As a result of the coordinated operation,” the department said in a statement Saturday, “officers seized more than two kilograms of Fentanyl, thirty-two rounds of ammunition, digital scales, drug packaging materials, and over $3,000 in U.S. currency.”

BPD units in Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Allston/Brighton and Jamaica Plain p

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