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Bronx Pizza Parlor Delivered Cocaine On the Side

040209cokepizza.jpg After a ten-month investigation, NYPD narcotics officers busted John's Pizza & Heros on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx on Tuesday, charging six people with participating in cocaine trafficking at the restaurant. According to prosecutors, manager Benigno Burgos and his associates moved hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs through the joint, with customers coming from as far as Connecticut to pick up their take-out orders, which were actually pizza boxes stuffed with up to $40,000 of cocaine at a time. The place also delivered. Of course, this story calls for some fun wisecracks, which DEA Special Agent-In-Charge John Gilbride has clearly been polishing. He tells the Post, ahem, "This gives a new meaning to the phrase 'slice and a Coke.' " On Tuesday cops also raided four nearby drug supply houses, finding nine kilos of cocaine, four handguns and approximately $20,000 in cash. They discovered the coke stash at Burgos's house hidden under a child's mattress, where no one was ever supposed to find it!

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  • NannyState

    I always ask for extra "grated parmesan".

  • FinalShaft
  • Mr. Vos

    If I don't get my delivery within 30 minutes, is it FREE?

  • Nyctini11

    If the let the delivery guys do a line before leaving, you'll probably get it in 10mins or less!



    What do you think they REALLY powdered their zeppole's with?

  • Nyctini11

    If the let the delivery guys do a line before leaving, you'll probably get it in 10mins or less!



    What do you think they REALLY powdered their zeppole's with?

  • matty

    lol. That image is so unbelievably perfect for the story I'm amazed it exists.

  • Wza

    lol..very true ^



    I know of that spot and area. I got a slice and a coke one time, but never coke and a straw.

  • aveB4life

    always impressed with gothamist's ability to find satirical photos

  • matty

    lol. That image is so unbelievably perfect for the story I'm amazed it exists.

  • ides_of_march

    Police were originally tipped off when they started making a lot of out-of-town deliveries to the White House shortly after inauguration day.

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