A long-term investigation focused on narcotics and gun trafficking in the Weeksville neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, led to seven arrests and dismantled a loosely connected drug distribution network that allegedly dominated the area. Four criminal complaints were filed by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor (SNP) following the investigation by the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Narcotics Borough Brooklyn North. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez reviewed and signed multiple eavesdropping applications for court authorization.

The drug is also called pink cocaine, although it typically contains no cocaine. Instead, market-savvy drug dealers concoct the powders from a number of substances.

A powder called “pink cocaine,” made up of a revolving group of drugs, has become a dangerous and increasingly popular part of the club scene in U.S. cities, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and epidemiologists who study recreational drug use.

Rising retail theft. Substance abuse. Mental health issues. These major concerns in Midtown (and others) will be addressed through a new interagency quality-of-life improvement hub that Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg announced Tuesday.

The hunt for a fugitive led authorities to a massive Bronx drug mill where dealers stashed stacks of cash and 25 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl, sources and cops said.

A 60-year-old man was arrested following a joint investigation at a Bronx apartment where more than 26 pounds of cocaine and $3 million in cash was stored hidden in several pieces of furniture with secret compartments, according to law enforcement.

An investigation into interstate narcotics trafficking resulted in the seizure of around 20 kilograms (nearly 45 pounds) of cocaine worth more than $1 million from a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Yonkers on Wednesday, March 13, federal prosecutors said. Members of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force (NYDETF) tracked the vehicle from Connecticut through The Bronx and Manhattan and into New Jersey, where it allegedly picked up the load of cocaine, before traveling north once again to Yonkers where it was intercepted.

Nearly 40 pounds of narcotics were seized from a swanky luxury apartment in Hell’s Kitchen this week in a bust that stopped more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine and methamphetamine from being distributed on city streets.

Nine suspected drug dealers were busted for allegedly selling psychedelic mushrooms and crack cocaine to undercover NYPD cops in a brazen open-air market in Washington Square Park, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Before Mexico’s cartel wars, I lived in the country for 10 years. I didn’t write much about drugs, focusing instead on immigration. But if asked, I’d have probably agreed with the Mexican line: Demand for drugs from the United States was creating supply.

A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

ROBESON COUNTY, N.C.—Carisa Collins-Caddle peered at a scar in the crook of Regina Locklear’s arm.