Joshua Hanley, who has been arrested for supplying the potentially deadly drug Batman. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\n
They appeared to be three normal northern beaches mates who liked to ski together and party hard. <\/p>\n
But police believe the trio of 23-year-old school friends are behind the spread of one of the most potent and potentially deadly batches of ecstasy pills the state has seen. <\/p>\n
A warning was issued in August after police detected a batch of blue pills stamped with a Batman logo and spiked with the deadly 25c-NBOMe, a synthetic LSD-like substance linked to the deaths of several young people, including north shore teenager Henry Kwan. <\/p>\n
Arrested: Zac Fenson. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\n
The pills had turned up in the southern region of NSW, on the state's ski fields and at a party in the Hawkesbury, where several users had bad reactions, prompting police to warn partygoers about the \"extremely potent psychoactive substance responsible for a number of deaths in Australia and overseas\". <\/p>\n
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Fearing potentially deadly consequences, police began a full-scale operation in May to trace the source of the pills and shut down the network of suppliers. <\/p>\n
Detectives stormed a hotel room in Sutton on Friday night, in the state's alpine region, where they arrested Jeffrey Gilmour, 23, from Collaroy Plateau and Zachary Fenson, 23, from Wheeler Heights, <\/p>\n
The potentially deadly Batman pills. Photo: Supplied <\/p>\n
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