{"id":237252,"date":"2026-05-19T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237252\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:13:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-4-arrested-after-thousands-of-cocaine-vials-200000-in-cash-seized-in-drug-delivery-service-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237252\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 4 Arrested After Thousands Of Cocaine Vials 200000 In Cash Seized In Drug Delivery Service Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A drug delivery service that had been operating out of a luxury Bronx apartment building was taken down following a long-term investigation led by the New York City special narcotics unit on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators seized over 22 pounds . of cocaine, two guns, and more than $200,000 in cash. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cFrom their base in a residential building in the Bronx, these four defendants distributed copious amounts of drugs across New York City,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say Ermes Jimenez, 28, supplied drivers from his apartment on Lincoln Ave in Port Morris, where agents later found more than 1,000 cocaine\u2011filled vials, a loaded handgun, ammunition, and money\u2011counting machines.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three drivers \u2014 Eddy Ruiz\u2011De La Rosa, 37; Jonathan Rivera, 43; and Jordan Machuca, 28 \u2014 were arrested in separate stops across the city. Searches of their vehicles turned up additional cocaine packaged in vials, cash hidden in trap compartments, and a handgun.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the group delivered cocaine across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, using the apartment building as a pickup point.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">All four men are charged with first and third\u2011degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Jimenez and Rivera also face firearm charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drug delivery service that had been operating out of a luxury Bronx apartment building was taken down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-237252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237252","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=237252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}