Two NYPD Rookies Nab $667K Worth Of Cocaine On Streetcorner

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Two rookie cops stumbled upon $667,000 worth of cocaine thanks to a nervous drug courier. As the officers approached the corner of West 190th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Fort George, 29-year-old Jose Milan dropped two duffel bags and walked away. "They opened the bags and they see bricks of cocaine," a source tells the Daily News. "He goes to run and they grab him." However, if the officers weren't in uniform, they may have just been another victim of the NYPD's very own Lucky Bag sting.

Milan, who lives in the Bronx, was charged with possession, and authorities believe he was a courier on his way to drop the cocaine off. For some perspective on how rare this is, it took police in Queens six months to seize $107K worth of drugs. The two officers will return to their beat as soon as they're done buying lottery tickets for everyone in the department.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on September 25, 2011 1:35 PM

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Inkognita

You have two big duffel bags stuffed with $667K worth of cocaine and you decide to walk it down the street instead of taking a car service or cab?

Either this guy is the dumbest drug dealer in town or something else is going on here.

whatidsay

Is it normal NYPD protocol to put two rookie cops on the same beat? They''re probably lucky they didn't shoot each other.

Investigate-NWO-globalists

Wow, the world is now a safe & happy place thanks to these 2 newly-uniformed crusaders.

zombiebob

Sounds like BS. Either way, that dude is going to get shanked. Also whats with this BS of calling that area Fort George? Sounds like some sort of stupid fucking realtor re-brandnig. I could be mistaken. I hate that shit so much.

soothsayer

hmm, there's more to the story. I once served a term of grand jury special narcotics. there was one case where we refused to indict somebody because some police officer, apparently his first bust, "stumbled upon" a cache of drugs and gave us some wierd story about it.