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DEA: Fancy NYC Doormen Sign For Drugs On The Side

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Not that kind of doorman, and not that kind of snow. But you get the idea! (KnickerbockerNY's flickr)

Sending drugs through the mail, not the best long-term drug smuggling method! A week after 35 pounds of coke was delivered (presumably mistakenly) to the United Nations, the DEA has started coming down on an allegedly mob-connected smuggling ring that used doormen in posh buildings to sign for their illicit deliveries. "It’s still an ongoing investigation—we’re still looking into it," a DEA agent told the Post.

So far the DEA has charged two New York men, Lulzim Kupa and Nezer Papraniku, in the scheme—which involved bribing doormen to sign for and hold on to packages until the right parties could come and pick them up. The DEA is currently unsure of just how many buildings were used in the scheme and how many doorman were a part of it, but they say they've got leads. In court documents filed in Brooklyn the agency says "that it has several informants who possess inside knowledge about the doormen cocaine smuggling scheme, so additional arrests may follow."

As for how the ring got noticed? Well, it didn't help that the packages the doormen were signing for were sent to people who didn't live in the buildings in question. Guess it's back to stuffing cocaine in clams!

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  • pete_mac

    Actually, that's pretty dumb bc in buildings like that, the tenants and management are all over how things are run.

  • ganghiscon

    I don't have a doorman, so I use the UPS Store.  But those people are super nice and I bet they'd sign for my drugs.  They'd even call to tell me when the package arrives.

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