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Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and New York Police Commissioner William Bratton announced the arrests of 12 people who allegedly sold crack cocaine, heroin and alprazolam to undercover officers approximately 120 times, beginning in January 2013, often making deliveries near a Crown Heights middle school.
During the year-long investigation conducted by the Field Intelligence officers of NYPD’s 77th Precinct, the NYPD’s Narcotics Borough Brooklyn North and Thompson’s Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau, undercover officers made approximately 120 purchases of crack cocaine and heroin, with the vast majority of the sales taking place in the lobbies and walkways of the following residential buildings: 1470 Sterling Place, 1488 Sterling Place, 1506 Sterling Place, 1522 Sterling Place and 1492 Park Place.
“The NYPD initiated a yearlong investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling community,” Bratton said in a released statement.
The defendants, all between the ages of 24 and 54, allegedly sold the drugs in the vicinity of Sterling Place between Utica and Rochester avenues, within a one-block radius of Middle School 394. They have been charged with varying counts of criminal possession and criminal sale of controlled substances.