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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 01:43 PM Feb 2014

New York cops: $8 million worth of heroin seized in raid, some bags stamped 'NFL'

A heroin processing location holding $8 million worth of the drug was busted in New York, along with drug paraphernalia stamped with brands such as "NFL" and "government shutdown," authorities said Friday.

A raid, which involved the DEA's New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, New York City police, and New York State Police, netted 33 pounds of heroin at a Bronx apartment that served as a "high-volume heroin packaging location," according to a statement from New York's Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office.

The bust was the product of a surveillance operation in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx on Thursday night, authorities said.

Cristino Then, 25, was arrested after officers observed him delivering a package to the residence, the statement said. He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/justice/new-york-heroin-bust/

They seized the heroin and drug paraphernalia, including 18 coffee grinders, rubber bands, baking soda, face masks, and "hundreds of thousands of individual 'glassine' bags stamped with numerous "brand names" including 'NFL,' 'Government Shutdown,' 'iPhone,' and 'Olympics 2012,'" the statement said.

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New York cops: $8 million worth of heroin seized in raid, some bags stamped 'NFL' (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 OP
This has about as much to do with the NFL... bluedigger Feb 2014 #1

bluedigger

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1. This has about as much to do with the NFL...
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 01:50 PM
Feb 2014

as Goofy and Mickey Mouse had to do with blotter acid. It's just marketing.

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