Cuomo Busts Up Drug Ring
From omnipresent GNS Albany reporter Dan Osburn:
State and local law-enforcement officials said 24 drug dealers were charged this week in a sophisticated drug cartel that was “infecting Schenectady,” state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today.
The people arrested this morning were part of a cartel that was running drugs from Long Island to Schenectady, Cuomo said.
More than $160,000 in heroin and cocaine were seized by law enforcers, as well as firearms and drug paraphernalia, according to the attorney general’s office.
The bust is an important step in stopping the flow of drugs from New York City to upstate, Cuomo said.
“This is a phenomena, a rash across upstate New York, and it’s a problem that we are going to solve,” Cuomo said.
The arrests were the culmination of a long-term drug crackdown led by Cuomo’s Organized Crime Task Force, according to the attorney general’s office. The state police’s Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the police department and district attorney of Schenectady were also involved in the operation.
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