Results tagged “drugdealer”

On Thursday night, the FBI raided six locations in Queens and on Long Island that the agency believes supplies drugs to street gangs on Long Island. Newsday reports, "The arrests were the first phase in a long-term operation aimed at breaking up gangs, such as the Bloods and the Crips, by eventually charging members with drug offenses that carry long-term prison sentences." An FBI agent explained that the suspects would use a code—which was originally developed by the Five-Percenters (the suspects were not Five-Percenters)—that substituted numbers with words: "In the code, the number three, for example, stood for the word 'understanding' and the number six for 'equality.' So when the suspects said 'understanding' and 'equality' together, they were saying a kilo of cocaine cost $36,000," according to the agent. Four people were arrested, all pleaded not guilty to drug distribution charges and all were held without bail.

Yesterday morning, two men were stabbed in the lobby of an apartment building on East 26th Street near Second Avenue in Manhattan. According to the Daily News, it's believed the suspects were "Gang members looking to avenge the shooting of a drug dealer... Investigators believe five men were waiting in parked cars outside the... building and jumped their victims when they stepped into the lobby just before 9:30 a.m." An 18-year-old died while a 30-year-old survived his stab wounds—both were stabbed repeatedly in the face and chest. The incident that spurred that stabbing is apparently a 4 a.m. shooting that occurred outside Pacha on West 46th Street; suspected drug dealer Michael Slater is in stable condition at Bellevue, which is just a few blocks away from the apartment building. A 21-year-old newcomer to the neighborhood told the News, "I moved here from Missouri yesterday. I didn't expect to step outside on my first morning here and see someone almost dead."

Last week, Inwood resident and schoolteacher Jason Holt was told by the Drug Enforcement Agency that his Inwood apartment was being targeted, so the feds put him up in a hotel for a little while. After that, the NY Times reports, "On Wednesday, the agents told him an arrest had been made and let him go home, but provided no details. At school Thursday morning, Mr. Holt checked the news online and got his answer." A cop, told by a drug dealer that there was $900,000 in the apartment's floor, was arrested for asking someone (who was a police informant) to help him "subdue" Holt with a stun gun and steal the cash. The news also explained why his apartment had been either broken into (the floors were torn up) or attracted odd activities (his lock's cylinder was stolen; a woman with young child said she left something there, etc). Holt, who said of apartment 4D, It seemed like a great find, a great deal," is now looking for a new place.

A 15-year veteran of the NYPD now faces federal robbery charges for allegedly scheming to steal nearly $1 million in cash rumored to be hidden in the former apartment of a drug dealer. Shawn Jenkins, 41, a highway safety officer, had apparently worked as a bodyguard for a drug dealer who was deported to the Dominican Republic. The drug dealer told him where the money was—in an Upper West Side apartment—and wanted him to give some of the money to his mother. The Daily News reports, "The problem was Jenkins needed help getting into the apartment, so he wanted the informant to help him serve an official-looking summons on the current tenant and zap him with a stun gun." Jenkins was arrested early yesterday morning in Washington Heights (he apparently "had a hand-scrawled floor plan supplied by the dealer"); his bail was set at $200,000. The tenant also told the authorities the apartment had been repeatedly robbed, probably by people suspecting there might be a booty hidden away; one time, a burglar "ripped up the floorboards while the tenant was on vacation."

So we know what keeps you awake at night, but what do you do about it exactly? One Brooklyn resident, for example, is wondering how to get the drug dealer living in the building to STFU. They write:

"I live on the first floor, and I know for a fact that there's a drug dealer in my building. I can hear the transactions happening since they're actually dumb enough to think their voices don't travel through my door when they're standing right next to it. This makes me extremely uncomfortable to know that this type of activity is so close to home. I want to call the police and report this, but I also am wary of the 'don't snitch' edict in this neighborhood. I should also mention that even when not dealing, this guy and some friends are usually smoking blunts in the hallway from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weeknights."

Quite the pickle! You'd think all that second-hand pot smoke would make this person chill out, but considering pot-dealing is a gateway to murdering your neighbors on the first floor, we guess they have reason for concern. To narc or not to narc—any advice? [via Brownstoner]

Stony Brook students, this is why you may not have been able to buy your pot or Adderall: Newsday reports that police pulled over Jesse Bachrach, 21, for making an "improper lane change" early Saturday morning in Southampton Village. The cop discovered the car smelled strongly of marijuana, which Bachrach turned over, but then "48 amphetamine tablets and six Adderall capsules, 'all packaged for sale'" were also found. According to Southampton Town police, Bachrach was headed to the Southampton campus of SUNY Stony Brook to sell the drugs. He will be arraigned on charges including "criminal possession of a controlled substance" and traffic infractions. Guess those kids studying for finals will have to subsist on caffeine!

It was a Brooklyn courtroom proceeding that could have ended very badly for female federal prosecutor Carolyn Pokorny, who was attacked by a third-strike convict she was prepared to send to prison for life. Victor Wright is a drug dealer who was being led into court for sentencing when he suddenly lunged at 38-year-old Pokorny, seizing her by the neck. In his other hand, Wright held an inch-long razor blade.