Clinton Hill drug ring busted
by Daniel Bush
Dec 01, 2009 | 681 views | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Clinton Hill residents complaining of a local drug ring can rest assured. Eleven members of a group selling crack cocaine and marijuana have been indicted, Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced on November 24.

Top charges against the group include criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a weapon.

According to the joint investigation, carried out by Hynes’ office and the NYPD’s Brooklyn Narcotics Division, dealers were selling drugs out of an apartment building on the corner of Grand and Putnam avenues. They also used a nearby barbershop and two tee-shirt stores to sell and store the illicit goods.

Law enforcement officials executing search warrants for the barbershop found 75 grams of crack with a street value of $10,000. Two guns and close to two pounds of pot were recovered from the tee-shirt stores.

“These drug dealers thought they could take over the neighborhood, selling poison on the street and in the hallways of an apartment building, sometimes in view of school children,” Hynes said in a statement announcing the operation. “Thanks to the work of the NYPD and the prosecutors in my Major Narcotics Bureau, these defendants will not be dealing anything for a long time.”

The case stemmed from community member complaints of the drug trade. Undercover officers made 18 drug buys over several months before cracking down on the operation.

A court date to try the defendants has not announced.

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