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11-27-2012, 07:07 AM
On "Faux Newz" this morning.. Just to pump up actual "value" in an attempt to justify the "War on Drugs"...
NY police seize over 100 pounds of cocaine from Times Square hotel
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/27/ny-police-seize-over-100-pounds-cocaine-from-times-square-hotel/?test=latestnews
There's no business like snow business — not in Times Square, where over 100 pounds of cocaine were seized in a dramatic drug gang takedown, officials said today.
The drugs were recovered from three rolling suitcases that were wheeled out of the Crowne Plaza Hotel like so much tourist luggage, with cops swooping in from their surveillance posts to bust six accused coke traffickers who'd turned the neighborhood into the Great White Way, authorities said.
The drugs, seized on Oct. 25, totaled 48 kilos and would have been worth $5 million on the street, officials estimated. [Using 30 year old numbers, coke is cheaper today, the real street value if sold in consumer quantities, would have barely crested 2mil. Scary thing is the average Faux viewer will believe what's reported]
The six alleged traffickers have been indicted on conspiracy and drug possession, according to Bridget Brennan, the city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and Joseph D'Amico, Superintendent of the state police, whose offices collaborated on the investigation.
State cops conducting surveillance at the hotel watched as at shortly after 6 p.m. Fernando Alvarado, 23, of The Bronx, left the hotel with a suitcase — later discovered to be holding 30 pounds of coke -- and placed it in the trunk of a waiting silver BMW, officials said.
NY police seize over 100 pounds of cocaine from Times Square hotel
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/27/ny-police-seize-over-100-pounds-cocaine-from-times-square-hotel/?test=latestnews
There's no business like snow business — not in Times Square, where over 100 pounds of cocaine were seized in a dramatic drug gang takedown, officials said today.
The drugs were recovered from three rolling suitcases that were wheeled out of the Crowne Plaza Hotel like so much tourist luggage, with cops swooping in from their surveillance posts to bust six accused coke traffickers who'd turned the neighborhood into the Great White Way, authorities said.
The drugs, seized on Oct. 25, totaled 48 kilos and would have been worth $5 million on the street, officials estimated. [Using 30 year old numbers, coke is cheaper today, the real street value if sold in consumer quantities, would have barely crested 2mil. Scary thing is the average Faux viewer will believe what's reported]
The six alleged traffickers have been indicted on conspiracy and drug possession, according to Bridget Brennan, the city's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and Joseph D'Amico, Superintendent of the state police, whose offices collaborated on the investigation.
State cops conducting surveillance at the hotel watched as at shortly after 6 p.m. Fernando Alvarado, 23, of The Bronx, left the hotel with a suitcase — later discovered to be holding 30 pounds of coke -- and placed it in the trunk of a waiting silver BMW, officials said.