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September 21, 2007

One Stop Shop For Cold Cuts AND Cocaine

2007_09_coldcocaine.jpgAre the munchies a side effect of cocaine abuse? The NYPD busted a multi-million dollar drug ring where buyers could buy their cocaine and deli meats. The police found 4.5 kilograms of cocaine ($175,000 worth) and arrested 25 suspects.

The Sun reports that the $4 million ring was operated out of establishments such as the Fiesta Meat Market in Washington Heights, billiards hall D.D. Café Billiard Sport, clothing store Yaharra (the headquarters), and bodega Broadway's Finest Grocery. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly explained, "They could order cocaine with their cold cuts right at the counter" of Fiesta Market during the day and then buy them at D.D. Cafe at night. At Broadway's Finest Grocery, the drug dealers would buy "packaging materials and a substance used to adulterate the cocaine."

In other drug bust news, the feds broke up a drug smuggling ring at JFK airport. Aircraft maintenance workers would secretly divert bags containing cocaine from foreign flights, for a $5,000 payday per bag.

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Comments (12)

mmmmm coldcuts and coke....

 

why do i always find out about this shit after they get busted??

 

Man, New York is great.

 

I remember the days when you could walk into certain bodegas and walk out with a dime. I thought they had all shut down!

 

Don't snitch.

 

Wow, I've seen some interesting things going on at this one bodega, but this must be happening all over NYC!

Ibrahim (Originally from Chicago)

www.BehindtheApprovalMatrix.com

 

don't snitch, but do share.

like what the hell, prices are gonna jump now?

 

COKE JUNKIES!!!

 

Salami is a gateway meat product. One day you're eating it, the next day you're rolling it up and blowing rails of coke off your butcher's ass.

 

Technically this is Hamilton Heights. I live about half a block away. There were police vans everywhere and a lot of people were crowded around on the sidewalks and in the center barrier where the benches are watching. Needless to say it's been unusually quiet the last couple of nights.

 

Half a pound of the SPECIAL STUFF, please.

 

Coke in Washington Heights! I am shocked!!!!!!

 
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