In Naked Lunch, William Burroughs wrote that while on heroin he could stare at his shoe with rapt attention for hours on end. So it's fitting that the largest smack bust in Suffolk County history should involve footwear: Prosecutors announced today that the Suffolk County Heroin Task Force has seized 17 pounds of heroin found stashed inside plastic shoe insoles. Two unidentified New Jersey men were busted outside a Melville, NY hotel on July 25th. Officials say the powdered heroin was organized in small blocks in the insoles. An analysis has determined that the heroin is 85 to 90 percent pure and could have been divided into up to a half-million dosages, enough to make even the most boring pair of loafers look interesting for decades.
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