drug trafficking

Mobster Pleads Guilty To Massive International Drug Trafficking Ring

Alessandro Tallone of the Rizzuto organized crime family based in Montreal is one of ten members of that branch of La Cosa Nostra charged with trafficking over $1 billion worth of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy into the U.S.

2013/05/23

Dr. Hector Castro arrested (credit: Handout)

Officials: Manhattan Doctor Charged In $10M Oxycodone-Trafficking Ring

Narcotics investigators allege Dr. Hector Castro’s medical office on East 16th Street was at the heart of two major schemes to peddle millions of highly-addictive oxycodone pills across several states.

2013/03/28

First Row (L-R) -- Alixandra Bujka, Michael Mancusi and Shannon Daniell. Second Row (L-R) -- Ryan Leuchau and Nancy Rivera-Daniell. (credit: NY Attorney General's Office)

Staten Island Prescription Drug Ring Bust Nets 5

New York authorities say they’ve shut down a prescription drug ring that made more than $80,000 in illegal sales.

2012/08/15

Crack seized at the Douglass Houses. (credit: NYPD)

23 Suspected Drug Traffickers Arrested In Douglass Houses Bust

Authorities say they launched their investigation after members of the community registerd numerous complaints about “widespread drug dealing and violence, including shootings and robberies” in the area.

2012/06/06

Some of the cocaine authorities say they recovered from a stove on May 14, 2012. (credit: Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York)

Authorities Seize 8 Kilos Of Cocaine From Jackson Heights Home

Authorities say they turned up more than six kilos of cocaine in a hidden compartment inside a dresser with a false back, and another two kilos were found in an oven.

2012/06/04

Coney Island - Brooklyn, NY (file / credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Brooklyn Narcotics Detectives Accuse Nine Of Drug Trafficking In Coney Island

A number of fatal shootings in Coney Island led to a 10-month-long narcotics investigation, and it’s now resulted in the roundup of nine accused drug traffickers from two loosely connected gangs.

2012/04/11

Thirty-one people were arrested and charged with selling oxycodone pills out of a Lickety Split ice cream truck on Staten Island. (Credit: CBS 2)

Louis Scala Admits Selling Pills From S.I. Ice Cream Truck

Louis Scala, the accused leader of a Staten Island drug trafficking ring that peddled over 40,000 oxycodone pills out of the back of an ice cream truck, has pleaded guilty.

2011/08/24

‘Operation Bad Medicine’ Busts Drug Ring Out Of Ice Cream Truck

Thirty-one people were arrested and charged with selling oxycodone pills out of an ice cream truck on Staten Island.

2011/03/17

Drug Enforcement Administration Agents (credit: AP)

Feds Regret Invading ‘Innocent’ Family’s NY Home

Federal prosecutors announced that 200 officers fanned through Spring Valley and elsewhere in search of 26 people accused of drug trafficking in Rockland County.

2011/01/15

NYC Heroin Mill Raid Nets 4

Police said they found 28 pounds of heroin worth more than $6 million in 250,000 small envelopes.

2010/11/12

Police: NJ Drug-Trafficking Probe Nets 12 Arrests

The East Orange Police Department said state and federal authorities had completed an investigation into a network of heroin and marijuana sales.

2010/11/06

Gang Member Gets 12-Year Term In Murder Plot

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Camden man who admitted his role in a conspiracy to kill another member of a New Jersey street gang has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Twenty-nine-year-old Dionicio Adams […]

2010/10/15

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