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Police: 10 Arrested, $5 Million Worth Of Heroin Confiscated From Inwood Apartment
April 15, 2016 9:27 PM
Filed Under: Bruce Reynolds Garden, heroin, Inwood, Park Terrace East
An Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill was busted by police on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Officers this week busted a large heroin mill in a picturesque part of Upper Manhattan, police said Friday.
As WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell reported, the heroin mill was in full swing in an apartment in the building at 10 Park Terrace East in Inwood.
It was one of the last places one would expect to find such an operation, in a building overlooking a tranquil park called the Bruce Reynolds Garden. The park was named after a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officer who was killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bruce Reynolds Garden in Inwood. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
But this apartment was a world apart, police said. Windows were covered by towels and about five window air conditioner units were going, police said. The apartment was also wired up with counter-surveillance equipment, including cameras looking out to the street in front of the building and the front door, police said.
“The air was thick with heroin and a powdered layer coated the wall moldings and other surfaces in the apartment,” police said.
A team of 30 detectives and agents stormed into the fourth-floor apartment while the suspects were allegedly in the middle of packing plastic bags with heroin, police said.
Many of the bags were piled in mounds already on top of a table, police said. Each bag has a street value of up to $10, police said.
An Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill was busted by police on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
Police arrested 10 mill workers at the scene and charged them with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally using drug paraphernalia. They were identified as Gaspar Mendoza-Sanchez, 17; Manuel Rivera, 29; Jose Brito, 50; Freddy Rivera, 35; George Rivera, 29; Carlos Rivera, 32; Steve Mendoza, 23; Cortorreal Rivera, 24; Christopher Ortiz-Ocasta, 36; and Gittel Pichardo, 31.
Police seized 22 pounds of heroin worth $5 million and 150,000 glassine envelopes, the NYPD said. They further seized hundreds of stamps for labeling with an assortment of brand names, including “Income Tax,” “Batman,” “Superman,” “Verizon,” “Pepsi, “Red Bull,” and “Mortal Kombat.”
Labels allegedly found for branded heroin at an Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
CBS2 was told at least one of the brands was recently sold on Long Island.
Police said they also found more than a dozen coffee grinders that were used to mix the heroin with diluting agents, as well as packaging material, scales, face masks, gloves, and business records.
The suspects had been set for arraignment Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Police: 10 Arrested, $5 Million Worth Of Heroin Confiscated From Inwood Apartment
" You ship off keys and we ship Grand Pianos "
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Heroin dealers’ home base overlooked memorial to fallen 9/11 hero — making arrests sweeter for Port Authority cops
BY Thomas Tracy
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, April 16, 2016, 3:31 PM
The Insham Park monument was dedicated to fallen Port Authority Police Officer Bruce Reynolds, a 9/11 responder.
They were hiding in plain sight — and desecrating the memory of a 9/11 hero.
The 10 heroin dealers who were packaging and selling baggies labeled “$incometax, “Painkiller,” “Walking Dead” and “Batman” were working out an Inwood apartment overlooking a garden in Isham Park dedicated to fallen Port Authority Officer Bruce Reynolds.
So when Port Authority cops working on the multi-agency operation helped slap the handcuffs on the suspects, they were doing it for Reynolds and everyone who enjoys his garden every day.
“I am sure the brave police officers who put an end to the Inwood heroin operation in Bruce's childhood neighborhood felt extreme honor making a major dent in the heroin epidemic that now sweeps our streets - while also restoring safety to the park that honors Bruce's heroism and life,” Paul Nunziato, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, said Saturday.
During a raid on the Park Terrace East apartment, cops found 22 pounds of heroin in 150,000 glassine baggies with a street value of $5 million, officials said.
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10 members of the drug ring were arrested as cops found 22 pounds of heroin and 150,000 glassine envelopes at the Inwood apartment. The uptown dealers used an array of ridiculous brand names for their deadly product, including “Mortal Kombat” and “OMG.”
When investigators raided the place, the suspects were in the process of bagging the drugs, officials said.
“The air was thick with heroin and a powdered layer coated the wall moldings and other surfaces in the apartment,” Kati Cornell, a spokeswoman for the Special Narcotics Prosecutors Office, said in a statement.
The dealers had begun renting the tony fourth floor apartment in July 2015 for $3,700 a month, officials said.
A source said that knowing that the arrest had a connection to Bruce Reynolds “left the Port Authority cops very pleased and satisfied.”
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Dope on the table.
Reynolds grew up in Inwood and loved being in Isham Park.
In his youth in the 1970s he worked diligently to restore Isham Park with his mother while gangs were wreaking havoc in the popular greenspace, according to the dedication plaque posted in the park.
Before he became a Port Authority officer, he worked for the Department of Parks & Recreation as an Urban Park Ranger, officials said.
On 9/11, the 15-year Port Authority veteran was killed as he tried to rescue a woman seriously burned by jet fuel that came from the hijacked planes that slammed into the World Trade Center. He was one of 37 Port Authority police officers to die on 9/11, officials said.
The investigation into the drug den was spearheaded by the Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Investigators Unit and Heroin Interdiction Team with assistance from the NYPD, the Port Authority police and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency’s Long Island Task Force.
ttracy@nydailynews.com
The late great JB was spitting dem bars decades ago
Police: 10 Arrested, $5 Million Worth Of Heroin Confiscated From Inwood Apartment
April 15, 2016 9:27 PM
Filed Under: Bruce Reynolds Garden, heroin, Inwood, Park Terrace East
An Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill was busted by police on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Officers this week busted a large heroin mill in a picturesque part of Upper Manhattan, police said Friday.
As WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell reported, the heroin mill was in full swing in an apartment in the building at 10 Park Terrace East in Inwood.
It was one of the last places one would expect to find such an operation, in a building overlooking a tranquil park called the Bruce Reynolds Garden. The park was named after a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officer who was killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Bruce Reynolds Garden in Inwood. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
But this apartment was a world apart, police said. Windows were covered by towels and about five window air conditioner units were going, police said. The apartment was also wired up with counter-surveillance equipment, including cameras looking out to the street in front of the building and the front door, police said.
“The air was thick with heroin and a powdered layer coated the wall moldings and other surfaces in the apartment,” police said.
A team of 30 detectives and agents stormed into the fourth-floor apartment while the suspects were allegedly in the middle of packing plastic bags with heroin, police said.
Many of the bags were piled in mounds already on top of a table, police said. Each bag has a street value of up to $10, police said.
An Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill was busted by police on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
Police arrested 10 mill workers at the scene and charged them with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally using drug paraphernalia. They were identified as Gaspar Mendoza-Sanchez, 17; Manuel Rivera, 29; Jose Brito, 50; Freddy Rivera, 35; George Rivera, 29; Carlos Rivera, 32; Steve Mendoza, 23; Cortorreal Rivera, 24; Christopher Ortiz-Ocasta, 36; and Gittel Pichardo, 31.
Police seized 22 pounds of heroin worth $5 million and 150,000 glassine envelopes, the NYPD said. They further seized hundreds of stamps for labeling with an assortment of brand names, including “Income Tax,” “Batman,” “Superman,” “Verizon,” “Pepsi, “Red Bull,” and “Mortal Kombat.”
Labels allegedly found for branded heroin at an Inwood, Manhattan heroin mill on Thursday, April 14, 2016. (Credit: Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office)
CBS2 was told at least one of the brands was recently sold on Long Island.
Police said they also found more than a dozen coffee grinders that were used to mix the heroin with diluting agents, as well as packaging material, scales, face masks, gloves, and business records.
The suspects had been set for arraignment Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Police: 10 Arrested, $5 Million Worth Of Heroin Confiscated From Inwood Apartment
" You ship off keys and we ship Grand Pianos "
Method Man & Redman
__________________
Heroin dealers’ home base overlooked memorial to fallen 9/11 hero — making arrests sweeter for Port Authority cops
BY Thomas Tracy
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, April 16, 2016, 3:31 PM
The Insham Park monument was dedicated to fallen Port Authority Police Officer Bruce Reynolds, a 9/11 responder.
They were hiding in plain sight — and desecrating the memory of a 9/11 hero.
The 10 heroin dealers who were packaging and selling baggies labeled “$incometax, “Painkiller,” “Walking Dead” and “Batman” were working out an Inwood apartment overlooking a garden in Isham Park dedicated to fallen Port Authority Officer Bruce Reynolds.
So when Port Authority cops working on the multi-agency operation helped slap the handcuffs on the suspects, they were doing it for Reynolds and everyone who enjoys his garden every day.
“I am sure the brave police officers who put an end to the Inwood heroin operation in Bruce's childhood neighborhood felt extreme honor making a major dent in the heroin epidemic that now sweeps our streets - while also restoring safety to the park that honors Bruce's heroism and life,” Paul Nunziato, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, said Saturday.
During a raid on the Park Terrace East apartment, cops found 22 pounds of heroin in 150,000 glassine baggies with a street value of $5 million, officials said.
10 members of the drug ring were arrested as cops found 22 pounds of heroin and 150,000 glassine envelopes at the Inwood apartment. The uptown dealers used an array of ridiculous brand names for their deadly product, including “Mortal Kombat” and “OMG.”
When investigators raided the place, the suspects were in the process of bagging the drugs, officials said.
“The air was thick with heroin and a powdered layer coated the wall moldings and other surfaces in the apartment,” Kati Cornell, a spokeswoman for the Special Narcotics Prosecutors Office, said in a statement.
The dealers had begun renting the tony fourth floor apartment in July 2015 for $3,700 a month, officials said.
A source said that knowing that the arrest had a connection to Bruce Reynolds “left the Port Authority cops very pleased and satisfied.”
Dope on the table.
Reynolds grew up in Inwood and loved being in Isham Park.
In his youth in the 1970s he worked diligently to restore Isham Park with his mother while gangs were wreaking havoc in the popular greenspace, according to the dedication plaque posted in the park.
Before he became a Port Authority officer, he worked for the Department of Parks & Recreation as an Urban Park Ranger, officials said.
On 9/11, the 15-year Port Authority veteran was killed as he tried to rescue a woman seriously burned by jet fuel that came from the hijacked planes that slammed into the World Trade Center. He was one of 37 Port Authority police officers to die on 9/11, officials said.
The investigation into the drug den was spearheaded by the Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Investigators Unit and Heroin Interdiction Team with assistance from the NYPD, the Port Authority police and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency’s Long Island Task Force.
ttracy@nydailynews.com