The $33 Million Bronx Build-A-Bear Brown Bust
Authorities announced Saturday a massive heroin bust in the Bronx, where dealers were moving millions of dollars in dope inside Build-A-Bear dolls. ... The drugs were packaged in tiny glassine bags branded with names like Barack Obama, Swine Flu and Crime 360, a nod to a detective series on A&E. ... State, local and federal law enforcement officers seized 33 pounds of heroin with a street value of about $33 million. All the heroin was made in America, authorities said.
Buy American, and Americans do work, son!
[NYDailyNews via Newser]
So This Is What a Shot-Up Bentley Looks Like
On a downtown stretch of the 101 Freeway, a storm of bullets riddled a $100,000 Bentley, showering the lanes with shell casings and glass, and leaving the driver mortally wounded. ... A search warrant affidavit filed by a Los Angeles Police Department detective says investigators learned that the dead man, 25-year-old Jose Luis Macias, might have been selling drugs here for the notorious Arellano Felix cartel. ... In recent years, the death and imprisonment of key leaders have weakened the Arellano Felix cartel, but it remains a fierce combatant for drug smuggling routes from Tijuana into Southern California and across the United States law enforcement officials say. ... the cartel brings cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the state and acts as a wholesaler for drug-dealing street gangs.
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Notorious: The Top Drug Lords of All Time: #3 Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas
Country: USA
Product: Heroin
Frank Lucas is famous for going out to the Golden Triangle (the apex of Asian opium production) himself and cutting out the middlemen to sell heroin on the streets of Harlem.
