Six arrested in bust of Bay Ridge drug ring
Drugs were called in by phone, delivered by car, says DA
Six defendants were charged on Monday with operating narcotics, steroids and marijuana phone delivery services in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Sunset Park and Bensonhurst. The charges resulted from a wiretap and undercover investigation conducted by the New York Police Department’s Narcotics Borough Brooklyn South and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau.
The investigation began after complaints by neighborhood residents, community leaders and local politicians, and after several overdose deaths in those neighborhoods, according to the DA’s Office.
“As this investigation demonstrates, careful coordination with the NYPD allowed us to break up this delivery-by-car drug dealing network. We will continue to work day and night with the NYPD to fight drug dealing that occurs anywhere in Brooklyn,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson.
Police Commissioner William Bratton said that “cell phones are essential to operating any business, but these drug dealers unlawfully used the device as a means to distribute narcotics on the streets of Brooklyn and put money in their pockets. These indictments send a clear message to criminals, that the law enforcement community will not tolerate criminal activity of any kind in neighborhoods where law-abiding citizens reside.”