More than 2 dozen arrested in NYC following a wiretap investigation
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NEW YORK—32 individuals were arrested Friday on narcotics and gambling charges following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York, working jointly with The New York City Police Department (NYPD).
The investigation, being prosecuted out of New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office, uncovered a large-scale alleged cocaine and heroin distribution network centered in the East Village and....
a related gambling operation located in a busy commercial district near West 11th Street and Avenue of the Americas in the West Village.
Beginning early Friday morning, 32 individuals were arrested in New York City, Massachusetts, Georgia and Florida. An indictment filed by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor (SNP) for the City of New York follows a long-term wiretap investigation by HSI and...
NYPD's Narcotics Borough Manhattan South, Gang Squad Manhattan South and Vice Squad.
"Those arrested today are not just alleged to have been involved in selling highly addictive drugs on city streets,
"Those arrested today are not just alleged to have been involved in selling highly addictive drugs on city streets,
but they are also connected with a sophisticated underground gambling operation right here in Manhattan," said Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of HSI New York. "Law enforcement always seeks to build on their investigations, consistently seeking to connect the dots.
As we continue to work jointly in these operations, HSI and NYPD are able to combine intel and resources to takedown criminal networks like this one."
Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill said, "The illegal behavior outlined in today's indictment will never be tolerated in New York City by the NYPD or any of our law enforcement partners.
I commend the attorneys and the investigators at the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Homeland Security Investigations, along with our Narcotics, Gang and Vice detectives, for demonstrating time and again that we are patient,
and that our collaborative forces have a long reach. We will continue to be relentless in our mission to dismantle these types of illicit operations and bring the criminals who run them to justice."
Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said, "The disparate criminal schemes orchestrated by this sophisticated and treacherous organization shared a single motivation: greed.
Both the gambling op. & the narcotics enterprise charged in the indictment unsealed today preyed on vulnerabilities. While it may be tempting to discount these schemes as victimless crimes, we have learned that drug addiction often leads to overdose & gambling debt to suicide."
