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Two sergeants and a detective were arrested Friday after one was caught on tape providing information on surveillance vehicles to a drug dealer and the other two were caught supplying drugs and cash that they'd stolen from a supposed junkie and then returning it in exchange for information. Sgt. Roosevelt Green was a 12-year-veteran of the NYPD working out of the 62nd Precinct in Brooklyn, who was using a police laptop to run license plate IDs for drug dealer Frank (Big Banana) Wilson. The DEA was tapping Wilson's phone and overheard him discussing federal surveillance vehicles that Wilson suspected were rival dealers. Roosevelt, who was socially acquainted with Wilson (they worked out and played basketball together) accepted athletic gear and clothing in trade for the information. He could face up to ten years in prison.

Last November American Gangster went head-to-head with Bee Movie at the box office, but now the film faces an off-screen battle. The NY Sun reports that Former DEA agents are suing NBC Universal for being falsely depicted on-screen.

Christmas trees! That's what 700 marijuana plants look like when they were being hauled out by the DEA. WNBC has photographs and video of a pot bust in Washington Heights, and the plants just seem endless, like kudzu. It's the stuff Harold's dreams are made of. WNBC reported, "It took investigators several hours to remove all of the drug-related material from the location." Also, it was "unusual" for so many pot plants to be grown in one city location.

Did you realize that yesterday's methampetamine lab busts in the city and Suffolk County happened on National Meth Awareness Day? The things you learn!

A $25 million heroin ring that spanned Colombia, Miami, the Bronx, and Jackson Heights, Queens, was busted by the DEA, which hauled 257 pounds of heroin in NYC alone. Fifty six people have been arrested after the two-year investigation, with 30 arrests yesterday. The DEA credited cooperation from Colombian and local authorities for the big bust, which was prompted by a hotline tip. Heroin was shipped into the U.S. by hiding it in furniture, golf bag linings, or the soles of platform flip-flops - see the photographs. Then it would be put in a Queens stash house and be prepared in "mills in the Bronx for retail distribution under different brand names, including Hypnotiq and Body Bag."

It was a horrible day for coke fiends as police broke up two unrelated cocaine rings. In one sting, bricks of cocaine were smuggled from Mexico using tombstones with the Virgin Mary on them. The DEA arrested 12 people in connection with the ring, including one in Houston and three in Brooklyn. A DEA agent told the media, "Like grave robbers who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City." Five of the eight tombstones found in Brooklyn had 20-25 kilos of cocaine each. All told, 194 kilos of coke were seized in Brooklyn with a street value of $8-12 million.

We mentioned the drug mule puppies yesterday, but there are now photographs and more details. The DEA did manage to save a few of the puppies, and even one agent said, "Throughout my 25-year career, this is one of the most outrageous methods of smuggling that I personally have encountered." The drug smugglers claimed they were show dogs! Now that would be an interesting mock-documentary. Authorities believe that the veterinarian is a fugitive in Spain - and they don't even know if the vet has actual vet training! Previous animal-mule incidents include a sheepdog with cocaine balloons, a boa constrictor with condoms filled with cocaine, and fish smugled with liquid cocaine.

This might be the sickest scheme we've heard to smuggle drugs into the country: Stitching bags of liquid heroin into the purebred Labrador retriever puppies. Nooo!!!! The DEA says Colombian drug dealers had a farm of puppies that they'd use to ferry smack to New York City - and three of the puppies died from infections after the dealers removed the packets. The DEA's NY office disclosed this heinous system, as well as noting other arrests they've made in the drug war, saying that puppies, as well as human swallowers and hiding heroin in "body creams...aerosol cans and...linings of purses and luggage," have been used.