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A drug ring smuggled cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York City by using Swiffer boxes, authorities said. (Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York)
NEW YORK CITY A drug bust in the Bronx swept up $3.5 million of cocaine found stuffed into Swiffer cleaning product boxes, authorities said.
DEA agents and local cops seized 25 pounds of cocaine and arrested three men over Monday and Tuesday, authorities said.
One of the men Jose Velez, 40 had recently traveled to Puerto Rico, where boxes containing the cocaine-stuffed Swiffer goods were shipped from, according to a release. Velez s apartment in Morris Park also had an automatic weapon, in addition to a stash of cocaine, authorities said.
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Last month, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced they were moving to dismiss nearly two hundred convictions involving Joseph Franco, a veteran narcotics detective who was indicted for lying under oath in 2019. Now, a coalition of eleven wrongful conviction and public defender organizations are challenging the validity of hundreds of other convictions going back decades.
In a letter sent to all five borough District Attorneys and New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutors on Friday, the coalition identified twenty-two additional NYPD officers whose misconduct, they assert, merits the dismissal of all convictions in which they played an essential role.
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A Connecticut man is one of five who have been arrested in a wide-ranging narcotics organization in which officials seized more than $2 million in heroin and fentanyl.
Litchfield County resident Nolan Reynoso, 30, of Torrington, was arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 5, during a raid conducted by the NYPD, the DEA, and the New York State Police, said Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor.
The takedown of the organization operating out of the Bronx came following the investigation which led to the dismantling of an alleged heroin packaging mill located inside two apartments, and the seizure of 11 kilograms of suspected heroin in brick form and over 100,000 filled individual dose glassine envelopes of heroin, as well as 500 blue pills of suspected fentanyl and $60,000 cash, the special prosecutor said.
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A Connecticut man is one of five who have been arrested in a wide-ranging narcotics organization in which officials seized more than $2 million in heroin and fentanyl.
Litchfield County resident Nolan Reynoso, 30, of Torrington, was arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 5, during a raid conducted by the NYPD, the DEA, and the New York State Police, said Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor.
The takedown of the organization operating out of the Bronx came following the investigation which led to the dismantling of an alleged heroin packaging mill located inside two apartments, and the seizure of 11 kilograms of suspected heroin in brick form and over 100,000 filled individual dose glassine envelopes of heroin, as well as 500 blue pills of suspected fentanyl and $60,000 cash, the special prosecutor said.