Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'drugbust'
June 17, 2008
A tractor trailer stopped in the Bronx turned out to be carrying $16 million in cocaine. Apparently $16 million in cocaine is equal to 400 pounds, as that's how much the authorities confiscated. NY Drug Enforcement Task Force searched the vehicle at a Bruckner Boulevard parking lot. The Post reports that the investigators, "convinced that drugs were stashed in the vehicle, borrowed an X-ray machine from Homeland Security." And they were right, because after......
Continue Reading "$16 Million in Cocaine Hidden in Tractor Trailer"June 5, 2008
A man died while trying to flee the dozens of federal agents who raided a heroin mill in a Castle Hill apartment. The man jumped from a 9th floor balcony to a 6th floor balcony, but "slammed his head against a sixth-floor railing." Two other women who tried to make the same jump were hospitalized. Eleven other people tried to flee as well, but were eventually captured. They jumped down to other balconies, and one......
Continue Reading "In Bronx Heroin Lab Bust, Suspect Falls to Death"March 12, 2008
Robert Chambers, the infamous Preppy Killer who was busted last fall for dealing drugs to undercover cops, is going to use a "psychiatric 'poly-substance abuse' defense." His lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg told a judge, "He did not act knowingly" because he was so influenced by drugs. How influenced? Van Leer-Greenberg said, "He was using 10 to 12 bags of heroin a day," plus he smoked crack and pot and abused the painkiller Dilaudid. Currently at......
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