A major drug bust in Brooklyn, after investigators said they shut down a smoke shop in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. <\/p>\n
The state\u2019s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) said they found more than 220 pounds of illegal drugs products inside of 645 Rogers Ave., which had a street value of $1.4 million. <\/p>\n
Clive Blackwood owns the building next door, which houses a day care center for young children. <\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I’m here [standing outside] and I can barely breathe because I’m right near the smoke,\u201d said Blackwood. <\/p>\n
The OCM shared photos of what they found inside the location, which include bags of illegal products and packaging similar to popular cookie products. <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, they said they were going to open a restaurant, a Chinese restaurant. And all of a sudden, I see they start moving stuff, and I look and there\u2019s a sign put up,\u201d said Blackwood. <\/p>\n
He told News 12 the smoke shop opened last fall and had a constant flow of customers. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs late as the night is, till wee morning – because they were open late – they\u2019d come and go, come and go,\u201d said Blackwood. <\/p>\n
But now no one is coming and going, and Blackwood said he feels the children at the day care are safer. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel good,\u201d said Blackwood. \u201cI mean, if they rent to somebody, I hope they don\u2019t bring no more drugs here.\u201d <\/p>\n
The OCM said that so far this year, it has closed 22 illegal cannabis shops and more than 550 illicit storefronts across the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major drug bust in Brooklyn, after investigators said they shut down a smoke shop in Prospect Lefferts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8979,25794,9,24,63,7127,25791],"class_list":["post-137015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cannabis","tag-drug-bust","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prospect-lefferts-gardens","tag-smoke-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137015","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=137015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}