Brownsville Operation Seizes Guns, Crack and ‘Sour Patch’ Cannabis
BROWNSVILLE – Special prosecutors and cops conducted raids in Brooklyn this week and indicted nearly a dozen loosely affiliated drug dealers, official say. They found guns, crack-cocaine and marijuana individualized inside Sour Patch candy wrappers.
Yesterday, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the indictment and arrests of 11 alleged drug traffickers who reportedly sold crack-cocaine in the vicinity of Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. An additional three individuals who have not been indicted were arrested during the execution of search warrants.
The new arrests are the culmination of a nine-month investigation, dubbed Operation “In the Ville,” in which undercover officers made 69 purchases of crack-cocaine for approximately $4,000. Many of the drug traffickers in this case were in their late teens and early 20s.