Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\nThe 266 kilograms or 580 pounds of suspected cocaine \u2014 worth an estimated $10 million \u2014 was seized outside a storage facility in Long Island City. The drugs were intended to be distributed in New Jersey and New York, officials said.<\/p>\n
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, along with investigators in New York City, began investigating a high-level cocained trafficking case earlier this summer, officials said.<\/p>\n
On two Wednesday evenings in August, officers saw Salcedo arriving at Central Park with heavy boxes, police said.<\/p>\n
He put them into a Nissan van that was registered to an elevator repair company, officials said. <\/p>\n
Investigators established surveillance on the van and tracked it to a self-storage facility at 41-02 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City. <\/p>\n
Last Wednesday, around 4:20 p.m., they observed Salcedo make two trips inside the facility. He brought out several cardboard boxes, officials said.<\/p>\n
The boxes were loaded into the van.<\/p>\n
Investigators obtained a warrant and found 12 boxes with 147 brick-shaped packages of alleged cocaine. Another seven boxes on the ground had 83 bricks.<\/p>\n
“This appears to be the largest single cache of cocaine my office has seized in 20 years,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said. “Cocaine trafficking has caused significant damage to our city and continues to claim lives, especially when mixed with fentanyl and sold to unwitting buyers.”<\/p>\n
“This seizure of 266 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $10 million, represents the NYPD’s largest cocaine bust in at least a decade,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n
Field tests yielded positive results for cocaine, while NYPD laboratory analyses are ongoing, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quarter ton of cocaine was going to be distributed in New Jersey and NYC, officials said. Sep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-335277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335277","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=335277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}