SILive.com - Just days after a New Dorp Beach landlord hung a large sign outside her home proclaiming "Beware! Drug Dealers Downstairs," authorities conducted a raid and arrested two sisters on drug-sale charges.
Linda and Christine Genise, both 52, are being arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday after they were apprehended on Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of their apartment on the 100 block of Roma Avenue by the NYPD Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force.
NBC New York - A couple flying into New York's John F. Kennedy Airport from the Dominican Republican attempted to conceal $250,000 worth of heroin in a whiskey gift box and a large speaker, authorities say.
Andres Uribe Rebolledo and his girlfriend Yuly Valencia Sanchez, both Colombian citizens, landed at JFK from Punta Cana Sunday with a Glenmorangie-brand whiskey gift box and a Marshall-brand speaker, Customs and Border Protection says.
CNN - March 22, 2017
Authorities are detailing the great lengths suspected drug smugglers went to in order to conceal their operation after $4.1 million in cash and more than six pounds of heroin were seized by federal agents at a New York storage facility over the weekend.
Three men were arrested for their part in what officials are calling an interstate drug operation, where they allegedly moved money and drugs throughout the country by concealing the contraband in secret compartments hidden inside pieces of furniture.
Kings County Politics - March 13, 2017
With record numbers of City residents dying from drug overdoses involving opioids last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray today launched a new initiative aimed at reducing opioid overdose deaths by 35 percent over the next 5 years. Dubbed HealingNYC, the comprehensive effort comes after more than 1,000 people in New York City died last year in drug overdose involving opioids – more than those who died in car accidents and homicides combined...
NBC New York - March 8, 2017
Police say three people have been arrested after an initial investigation into a cocaine trafficking scheme uncovered a defrauding scam targeting the elderly for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Ricardo Castang was indicted on charges including multiple counts of conspiracy and money laundering, the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced Wednesday...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday that New York City and the nearby suburbs are facing a heroin epidemic. As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, law enforcement is seeing record overdoses and a sharp rise in street heroin mixed with chemicals so powerful that even a miniscule amount can be deadly...
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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — March 2, 2017
America is in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Opioids, both prescription and illicit, are killing people across the Tri-State Area in record numbers. Our communities are caught in the middle of a modern drug war — one that most experts believe we are losing. The “killer tide” of drug abuse washing through our cities and towns has now reached crisis proportion. Elected officials like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy are sounding the alarm, saying the longer we delay a national strategy the more lives we will …