{"id":133812,"date":"2026-02-14T23:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:55:27","slug":"bronx-drug-igloos-shut-down-by-cops-but-menacing-weed-dealers-threaten-post-scribes-vow-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133812\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx ‘drug igloos’ shut down by cops, but menacing ‘weed dealers’ threaten Post scribes, vow to return"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brazen drug dealer busted for slinging marijuana out of tents<\/a> on a busy Bronx sidewalk was back on the block just a day after being exposed by The Post.<\/p>\n

Though the makeshift shelters were nowhere to be seen Saturday, the thug had no problem laying claim to his turf and vowing their enterprise isn\u2019t going up in smoke.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet the f\u2013k outta here!\u201d the man fumed at a Post female reporter who tried gathering information from local residents about the removal of the wintry weed tents along University Avenue in Morris Heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re taking my business. You don\u2019t belong here. You\u2019re gonna see what happens. You think this is funny?\u201d<\/p>\n

A pair of drug igloos (one shown) that had been used to brazenly sling marijuana on a busy Bronx sidewalk were down Saturday \u2014 a day after being exposed by The Post. New York Post<\/p>\n

The thug, accompanied by a rogue posse of three other stone-faced men, claimed he was one of two people the NYPD arrested Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got locked up yesterday for this bulls\u2013t, and I\u2019m not afraid to go back,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He recorded the reporter and a Post photographer with a smartphone \u2014 at one point assaulting the shutterbug, poking him on the cheek three times with his hands \u2014 before stalking them for a nearly block as they hastily walked away towards West 176th Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite mother f\u2013er!\u201d the thug shouted. \u201cGo back to Manhattan! I\u2019m not gonna tell you. I\u2019m gonna show you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sign says \u201cShop Open\u201d Friday at one of two tents allegedly selling weed along University Avenue in Morris Heights, shortly before it was shuttered by NYPD cops. New York Post<\/p>\n

The man said he was briefly locked up Friday after being arrested and charged with illegally selling marijuana out of the open-air tents. NY Post<\/p>\n

Cops first observed the open-air drug tents \u2013 one of which shamelessly advertised \u201cGood Weed Deals\u201d on a handwritten menu \u2013 around 2 p.m. Friday, shortly after an earlier confrontation between other Post journos and the alleged illicit pot peddlers.<\/p>\n

There were two tents \u2014 one black, one red-orange \u2014 on the snowy sidewalk, with orange electrical cords running to nearby poles, presumably to provide power.<\/p>\n

Police officers removed the tents and \u201cwill continue to address the conditions in the area,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

A photo Saturday of site of where the drug tents had been set up on University Avenue. NY Post<\/p>\n

Two Bronx men \u2013 Michael Lightly, 41, of 1001 University Ave.; and Dawson Short, 39, of 1865 University Ave. \u2013 were arrested and slapped with charges of theft of service and unlicensed vending. Lightly was also charged with resisting arrest, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

The tents reached online infamy this week after a TikTok user documented them in a video emblazoned with the phrase, \u201cOnly in the Bronx\u201d \u2014 and featuring one bleary-eyed occupant peering out. <\/p>\n

The video went viral among critics of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who blamed the Democratic socialist\u2019s arguably soft-on-crime stances \u2014 even though some nearby business owners claimed the seedy setups popped up two or three years ago. <\/p>\n

Reps for Mamdani, who was traveling in Albany Saturday, did not immediately return messages.<\/p>\n

The alleged illicit pot peddlers also didn\u2019t take kindly to being smoked out by the other Post staffers Friday.<\/p>\n

How the New York Post covered the weed tents in Saturday\u2019s edition. csuarez<\/p>\n

A reporter and photographer on Friday spied two tents \u2014 one black, one red-orange \u2014 on the snowy sidewalk. The red tent had a hand-scrawled sign on a dry-erase board declaring \u201cShops Open,\u201d along with prices for pre-rolled joints and baggies up to $100.<\/p>\n

As the journos sniffed around the hot boxes, a masked mope holding a phone aggressively confronted the photographer sitting in a car and demanded to know why he was taking photos.<\/p>\n

The photographer drove off with the drug dealers\u2019 apparent lookout still knocking on his window.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brazen drug dealer busted for slinging marijuana out of tents on a busy Bronx sidewalk was back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,24783,6210,57,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-133812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-drug-dealers","10":"tag-marijuana","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}