{"id":325151,"date":"2026-08-19T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325151\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:50:50","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-investigators-seize-packages-holding-19-kilos-of-cocaine-in-east-williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325151\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Investigators Seize Packages Holding 19 Kilos Of Cocaine In East Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Around 19 kilograms of cocaine were seized in East Williamsburg during an investigation into drug smuggling via UPS delivery services.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Special Narcotics Prosecutor\u2019s Office says investigators identified two packages containing cocaine being shipped to a Bogart Street address. Both were flagged as suspicious by a K9 at a UPS facility in Queens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An undercover officer posing as a UPS driver approached Joshua Vargas in front of the location on July 15 and asked if one of the packages belonged to him. He was taken into custody after confirming.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A search of the package revealed eight brick-shaped portions containing 11 kilograms of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Vargas is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say eight additional kilograms were also recovered from another package sent to the same address. The investigation related to this package is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 19 kilograms of cocaine were seized in East Williamsburg during an investigation into drug smuggling via UPS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-325151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325151","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=325151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}