U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers searching a shipping container at the Red Hook Container Terminal last week opened up a refrigerator unit and found a pretty sizable haul of cocaine. 24.6 pounds of blow were concealed in bricks within the container, which was bound for the Antwerp, Belgium. Sounds like those hard-partying students at the University of Antwerp are gonna have to make do with Red Bull and Adderall for a few more days. more ›

A Netherlands resident was accused of importing 16 pounds of cocaine hidden inside markers, deodorants, nail polish bottles, and buttons at Kennedy airport last Tuesday, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Tomas Sykora's bag was pulled for inspection on his layover between Haiti and Brussels, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Anthony Bucci tells the Daily News Sykora showed "some traits of nervousness," likely due to the 16 markers, 17 roll-on deodorants, 24 nail polish bottles and 684 buttons all containing cocaine. more ›

Did you realize that Calvin Klein, 67, had been dating a man 46 years younger than him? If you didn't, then you'll need to look at this Google Image search (SFW, at least for the first few screens) before understanding why everyone is reporting about how Klein's former boy-toy Nick Gruber was arrested at his Greenwich Village apartment earlier this morning. more ›

Drug dealers looking to bring their wares into the Big Apple have apparently discovered what most New Yorkers already knew: Chinatown buses are the best deal in town. Since last August the (apparently well-named) Golden Horse Tours bus company has been involved in multiple impressively large drug busts, the city's Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor says. Naturally, an investigation into the company is now ongoing. more ›

An ex-con who police observed dropping a bag of cocaine in a Greenwich Village pizza shop turned out to have a lot more than just a bag of coke on him. Tyrel Henderson, 22, could probably use a lesson in keeping a low profile: after he was busted with the coke, police allegedly found five more bags of cocaine as well 23 bags of marijuana in his underwear. more ›

He bragged about it in 2009 but it turns out he wasn't kidding: David Cross did cocaine in the same room as President Obama during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick," Cross tells Playboy this month. Yes, but how much of that cocaine made its way across the room and up into the president's nose? more ›

A 52-year-old New Jersey man who racked up $123,000 in fees and unpaid tolls on his mother's Ford Focus blames a cocaine addiction for his callousness. “When you’re addicted like that you don’t think of he consequences. You have other things on your mind,” Peter Davis told the Post. Davis, whose photo is found next to Webster's Dictionary's definition of "cocaine," is legally off the hook. His 75-year-old mother Jean is the one who is responsible for the fees. Have we found a challenger to the current titleholder of World's Worst Son? more ›

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. more ›

Talk about the wrong address! Some silly Mexican drug traffickers recently lost 35.5 pounds of cocaine when they accidentally sent it to the United Nations. You can not make this stuff up. Also, that's a lot of blow. more ›

One former-Ivy Leaguer won't have to sell nearly as much cocaine to cover the costs this semester as he enrolls at City College, where annual tuition is 88 percent cheaper than at neighboring Columbia University. But it's unlikely Michael Wymbs will be slinging anytime soon if he knows what's good for him—he's taking a plea deal that includes five years probation and court-ordered drug treatment. more ›

On December 22, 39-year-old Tennesseean Meredith Graves brought her loaded .38 pistol in her purse to the 9/11 Memorial and, after she asked a guard if there was a place she could check it, was promptly arrested. She posted bail on Wednesday and yesterday at least one local pol started pushing for lenience (she faces a minimum sentence of 3 1/2 years on a single felony weapons-possession charge) since her gun was properly registered in her home state. Also, police say that besides the gun Graves, a fourth-year medical student, had "two envelopes of what they suspected to be cocaine" in her purse. more ›

Last week was a good one for our local Customs agents. Not only did they find $300,000 in fake bills at JFK, agents at Newark confiscated about 6.1 pounds of cocaine in two separate incidents. The Italian woman who hid her coke in a false bottomed bag is pretty run of the mill, but give credit to the Peruvian guy who tried to smuggle his drugs in deflated soccer balls and inside four pairs of sandals. No hiding coke in coloring book pages, but not bad. more ›

A 19-year-old Bronx woman was caught on her way back to New York from Jamaica for allegedly trying to smuggle three pounds of cocaine in her shoes. It doesn't quite compare to this, but still, the blow doesn't look like it was stashed there on accident. more ›

The father of the 21-month old girl who was shot in the face in the crossfire of a Staten Island shootout in September was caught yesterday with 66 baggies of crack and cocaine strapped to his genitals with a rubber band. Michael Bailey, 28, was stopped by police for erratic driving yesterday, and arrested for pot possession—but when police searched him, they found the other narcotics. “I do what I have to, to make money and survive,” Bailey allegedly told police, according to the Post. more ›

Drug traffickers, apparently tired of storing their stash in hangers, saris and sneakers, have found a new place to hide the goods: your luggage. So now you can pay a "checked baggage fee" AND bail when you're busted for being a drug mule! more ›

Hotels were created so people had a place to do all the weird stuff they couldn't do at home: world leaders can canoodle, impromptu "best-ass contests" can be held, and of course, celebrities can have "booze-and-blow" binges. And to that end, a new lawsuit contends that boxing legend and noted women's neglige aficionado Oscar De La Hoya threw just such a booze-and-blow fueled sex party at The Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South, complete with cross-dressing, veiled threats, and unnamable sexual positions. “It was beyond kinky. Things that I don’t even know how to explain were done with him,” model Angelica Marie Cecora told the Post. more ›

We already knew that theNYPD was watching out for cokeheads around Zuccotti Park ever since Occupy Wall Street took up residency there. But last night, it seems things got a little out of control when one teen went around trying to sell baggies of coke to protesters—and ended up allegedly punching three protesters, including two women. more ›

A Brooklyn firefighter is facing 20 years in prison for allegedly serving as muscle for a mob coke ring. Anthony Cilento, of Ladder 166, claims he left the ring when he entered the Fire Department Academy in 2008. But prosecutors paint a different picture: "The defendant's relationship with the Bonanno family is corroborated by consensual recordings made...over a full year into his service to the New York City Fire Department," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Argerentieri. more ›

It's unclear whether Jose Acosta was working on his memoirs or simply begging to get busted when he boarded a JetBlue flight from St. Lucia to JFK carrying handwritten notes titled "Confessions of the Mule." But the Daily News reports that his handwritten confession quickly became a verbal one after he was questioned by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector when he landed on Monday. "The charade is up: you've got me," Acosta allegedly told the inspector. Worst game of charades EVER? more ›

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. more ›

Here's a little tale of motherly love gone awry. When a baggage handler who worked at JFK was busted for running a drug-trafficking ring, his mother flew to Africa to hire a shaman to put a voodoo curse on the prosecutor's handling the case. Kind of sweet, isn't it? But now they're both in some legal hot water that even a mystical hex can't fix. more ›

Monica Cookman apparently lives up to her last name name. This weekend the South Bound Brook police arrested the 29-year-old New Jersey woman for getting a little too creative in the kitchen and spiking her boyfriend's dinner with two lines of cocaine. It seems her unidentified boyfriend wasn't blown away by the yeyo seasoning—so he called the popo on her. more ›

Last week, Jason Itzler, the infamous and self-proclaimed "King of All Pimps," was in court to plead not guilty to charges of selling cocaine, promoting prostitution and laundering money, before his pants fell to his ankles and he shuffled out of court. Yesterday, he told the judge that his arrest was part of a huge conspiracy involving an Achy, Breaky singer and a billionaire mayor, "Billy Ray Cyrus is best friends with Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg has a tendency to cover things up." more ›

After you've read about people stuffing their booger sugar and H in porcelain kitties, luxury cars, tea bags, Wii Fit pads, hangers and shoes, it is hard not to feel a little jaded when a person puts their drugs in a box of Virgin Mary statues. But you've got to tip your hat to this latest drug smuggling innovation: mollusks. more ›

Three men have been charged with selling cocaine, heroin, crack, painkillers and guns near the Chelsea Houses in Manhattan. And lacking any airbags, cat statues, hangers, and submarines to hide their drugs in, prosecutors said the dealers instead hid cocaine and heroin in the alleged ringleader's infant daughter's diaper bag and stroller. Don't they know that children's coloring books are for smuggling drugs? more ›

A Columbia University student busted for selling cocaine last year is now going be to spending the next six months at Rikers Island. Harrison David, who was kicked out of the engineering program after his arrest, "pleaded guilty to felony criminal sale of a controlled substance" in exchange for the six month jail stint, which will amount to 3 1/2 months behind bars with good behavior and time served. His defense lawyer said, "It's not too bad. At least not for those of us who don't actually have to serve it." more ›

A Coney Island firefighter's history may well be catching up with him. 27-year-old Anthony Cilento, of Ladder 166, is being held without bail and is suspended from the Department without pay due to his alleged previous involvement with a coke ring. Cilento, who is said to have left the ring when he entered the Fire Department Academy, is the second civil servant said to be involved with this particular drug delivery service: Earlier this year retired 39-year-old NYPD officer John Avvento was accused of trading "cash, cocaine and Vicodin" for NYPD gear. more ›

The owner of the Bay Ridge karaoke club that was the scene of a violent early-morning brawl last week finally talked about the brouhaha, and the 22-year-old is just full of gems. more ›

The financial crisis has hit us all in unique and unforeseen ways—even robbers have had to downgrade to using branches for their stickups. And it seems that it's no different for the mafia: three Gambino associates were arrested and charged with running three marijuana grow houses and a cocaine distribution ring on Staten Island. more ›