Some enterprising young drug hustlers make objectively saavy moves, but others make some pretty dumb ones. Well, we're strictly in the latter camp with yesterday's bust at two apartments on the border of Queens and Brooklyn. Cops netted a $10 million stash of cocaine, as well as a small arsenal of weapons.
Some Drug Dealers Really Making It Easy For Cops
Untaxed Cigarette Kingpin May Go Free On "Lack of Clarity"
A cigarette dealing kingpin who has been in jail for over six years may finally get out over a "lack of clarity" in tobacco laws. Rodney Morrison, 43, has been running a multimillion dollar tobacco business from behind bars, while prosecutors have been trying to convict him on charges of murder and racketeering. Prosecutors say he is one of the state's biggest dealers of untaxed cigarettes, which he sold from the Poospatuck Indian Reservation on Long Island.
Pot Dealing Firefighter Gets Smoked Out in Sting
A firefighter on Staten Island was arrested Wednesday for allegedly selling $40 worth of weed to undercover cops who spotted his advertisement on Craigslist. During the transaction, 32-year-old Michael Seise, a three-year veteran of Ladder 82, also inexplicably hinted that he was a member of the FDNY, a police source tells the Daily News, adding, "This guy is an idiot. There's really not much else to it." After the arrest, police found traces of white powder believed to be cocaine in his Chrysler 300 luxury sedan. Seise has been suspended immediately, which is probably a good thing, because it must have been irritating to pull the firetruck over every time he got the munchies.
NYU Student Kicked Out of Dorm, Not School, for Drugs
Just weeks into the first semester, students narced out an unidentified NYU freshman for allegedly selling coke from her dorm room, prompting her expulsion from the residence. That a student at an obscenely expensive university was supplementing her allowance by slinging a little yey is hardly a shocker. But what's raising eyebrows over at the campus paper is that her room was never searched, no evidence was collected, she wasn't formally charged with a crime, and the accusations were never passed along to campus cops or the NYPD.

