Authorities have arrested a 40-year-old man accused of running a drug operation out of his New York City apartment after investigators discovered 25 pounds of.
Police charged an alleged major drug trafficker and two others in connection with a large-scale cocaine distribution operation in the Bronx, officials announced Wednesday.
The suspects transported the narcotics from Puerto Rico to New York City in Swiffer pad boxes, then peddled the drugs in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx, said the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
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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.