Officers on Wednesday rounded up a den of suspected Queens drug dealers — including a man with reputed ties to La Cosa Nostra — for slinging fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine in Queens and Brooklyn.
Officers on Wednesday rounded up a den of suspected Queens drug dealers — including a man with reputed ties to La Cosa Nostra — for slinging fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine in Queens and Brooklyn.
NEW YORK -- Operation Goodfellas has nabbed quite a few badfellas.
Cops on Wednesday rounded up a den of suspected Queens drug dealers — including a man with reputed ties to La Cosa Nostra — for slinging fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine in Queens and Brooklyn.
The busts are the result of a 10-month investigation — Operation Goodfellas — that started with a tip from a cop in the 110th Precinct that a gang with ties to organized crime was peddling drugs, NYPD Deputy Inspector Dominick D’Orazio said.
Reputed mobster, David Antoinuche, 51, ran an organized ring that made both inside and outside sales. Undercover cops bought 150 grams of heroin and 300 grams of cocaine, worth about $35,000 on the street.
“These were mid to high level dealers in Brooklyn and queens,” D’Orazio said. “Opioids is a major problem in the city. Cases like this go a long way toward addressing the problem.”
The drugs were being sold in Bushwick, Ridgewood, Corona and Jamaica, police said.
“We believe we infiltrated a group that was able to put a significant amount of drugs on the street,” D'Orazio said.
Also arrested on drug trafficking charges were Robert Henricks, 42, Santiago Villarraga, 23, Samuel Rivera, 47, and Eliecer Matta Medina, 21,
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Cops on Wednesday rounded up a den of suspected Queens drug dealers — including a man with reputed ties to La Cosa Nostra — for slinging fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine in Queens and Brooklyn.
The busts are the result of a 10-month investigation — Operation Goodfellas — that started with a tip from a cop in the 110th Precinct that a gang with ties to organized crime was peddling drugs, NYPD Deputy Inspector Dominick D’Orazio said.
Reputed mobster, David Antoinuche, 51, ran an organized ring that made both inside and outside sales. Undercover cops bought 150 grams of heroin and 300 grams of cocaine, worth about $35,000 on the street.
“These were mid to high level dealers in Brooklyn and queens,” D’Orazio said. “Opioids is a major problem in the city. Cases like this go a long way toward addressing the problem.”
The drugs were being sold in Bushwick, Ridgewood, Corona and Jamaica, police said.
“We believe we infiltrated a group that was able to put a significant amount of drugs on the street,” D'Orazio said.
Also arrested on drug trafficking charges were Robert Henricks, 42, Santiago Villarraga, 23, Samuel Rivera, 47, and Eliecer Matta Medina, 21,
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