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12 Crown Heights Drug Dealers Arrested

Prosecutors today announced the arrests of 12 individuals who allegedly sold narcotics to undercover officers approximately 120 times, beginning in January 2013, often making deliveries near a middle school.

The drugs sold were crack cocaine, heroin and alprazolam (Xanax).

“We simply will not tolerate the sale of crack cocaine and heroin anywhere in Brooklyn, let alone near a school that young children attend.  These arrests show our determination to investigate and prosecute anyone who deals drugs in our neighborhoods,” said District Attorney Ken Thompson.

Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said, “The NYPD initiated a year-long investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling Pl. community. The joint efforts of the investigators from Narcotics Borough Brooklyn North, 77th Precinct, and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office ended this drug operation and the intimidation it exercised over the local neighborhood.”

The operation began in January 2013.  It was a year-long, joint effort conducted by the Field Intelligence Officers of NYPD’s 77th Precinct, NYPD’s Narcotics Borough Brooklyn North and Thompson’s Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau.

During the investigation, undercover officers made approximately 120 purchases of crack/cocaine, heroin. The defendants allegedly sold the drugs in the vicinity of Sterling Place between Utica Avenue and Rochester Avenue, within a one-block radius of Middle School 394.  Several of these dealers were part of a drug crew called “Sterling World.”  The vast majority of the sales took place in the lobbies and walkways of the following residential buildings:  1470 Sterling Place, 1488 Sterling Place, 1506 Sterling Place, 1522 Sterling Place and 1492 Park Place.

Execution of five search warrants at targeted locations resulted in the seizure of firearms and additional quantities of controlled substances. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned later today in Kings County Criminal Court. Both Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in or Near School Grounds and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree are Class B Felonies.

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51 Comments

  • Moshe zuch mir

    Unfortunately we have people from prominent chasidishe families who sell and nothing is being done about this. The time has come to put a stop to this. .

    • YMSP

      Remember that a Jew is supposed to ch”v give his life rather than be moser, H”Y. Aside from that, with the insane, inhumane sentences that have been passed for drug crimes in this country, R”L, one would have to have a lev ha’even to be maser someone, or worse.

      Having community members stand in front of houses, interrupt “business,” and make it undesirable actually produces results without resorting to grossly inhumane tactics or risking sentencing a yid, any yid, to a sentence of decades, H”Y, l”a vl”a.

  • report to who????

    how can i report my neighbors selling durgs????

    iknow they sell

    i know tey sell to our own

    inknow they sell on shabbos and yomtov

    thier customers are from all walks of lifes including our own brother with yarmulks and tzitizis and even taking place on shabbos

    i have even seen girls come by to buy a joint as they were dressed as nodest tzinus young girls

    to whom do i report this????

    pleaee post!!!!!!!

    • Milhouse

      There is no issur in selling drugs, and if they are yidden there is no heter to masser them. Nobody is forced to buy from them; and if someone is determined to buy then they’ll find another dealer.

    • Milhouse-r u nuts?

      Drugs destroy peoples lives. Like the trauma of sexual abuse, it drives people off the derech.The hold is so great it becomes the person’s first priority and rules a person even against his will-it wins out over Torah and halacha even against that person’s will. It destroys life in both the secular and religious spheres. Some opiate class drugs can addict can cause physical addiction on the first use. Unlike liquor, addiction to drugs is the normal thing.They are destroying lives Jewish and non-Jewish, spiritually and physically

    • YMSP

      Veiter mesirah. Not sure what kind of generation this is. A person used to be the lowest of the lowest to masser in any case. Guess that those ziboris are better than our ziboris (eleph poomimi kocha). Hopefully they’re not better than our benonis (those who even mention mesirah are not shiach to “idis” klal uklal).

    • K

      Selling drugs, like selling alcohol and nicotine, is selling poison that will destroy lives. Just as one who “sells” avoda zara is poisoning the neshama of others, and therefore is a choteh u’machti, so also providing poison to the gufim of others is a rodef (chasing after someone to kill them).

      A rodef can be massered on! Someone who constantly causes harm to others MUST be massered on!

      Including those who sell untaxed cigarettes – which entices others to smoke more because it is cheaper, they are rodfim, and one MUST masser on them!

      Same when someone giver underage youth alcohol, he is a rodef by placing these youths in harms way and also not following dina d’malchusa – one MUST mosser on him!

      It is also l;fnei iver – like supplying wine to a nozir. Not as Milhouse claims that the nozir would get the wine elsewhere! It is difficuly and complicated to find drugs and sources of poison. It is like a nozir he wants the wine on the other side of the river and you reach it to him!

      Once again Milhouse advertises his gross am haratzus as he misleads the public!

  • mendoza

    why do they have to appear in court ?

    if the crime happen in crown heights they should be brought to the bais din of crown heights .

    its only right ?

    LOL

    • another milhous

      who are you questioning if they are yidden?

      the sellers?
      the buyers?
      or the Beis Din?
      im confused………….

  • Levi

    How about the drug dealers in our community? The Frum ones who sell weed, oxy and molly to our kids? Will they be busted soon?

    • YMSP

      Go to their house and take the stuff (using all that’s needed to do so). Shout in the streets till they can’t do anything. Deal with it in other ways. Don’t masser.

  • good start

    ok, that might clean things up a bit. They should keep going. The GANGS are the issue. They are mostly people who do it because its like a family which they never had, so they become very attached and very devoted to the “cause”. Its hard to break them….once they’ve had a childhood of neglect and/or abuse.

    • M

      It’s still a problem under federal law in U.S.

      Uruguay is the first and only country right now that has it legalized into law.

  • Sober 13 years

    if you know of anyone selling drugs, using drugs, or buying drugs and you turn your head, you’re just as guilt and responsible for the addiction or death. especially to all of you parents that are ashamed to do something to help there children SHAME ON YOU

    • Milhouse-r u nuts?

      AMEIN!!! These fools are selling their lives for nothing but pain and think it’s a wonderful thing r”l. Stay ok, more power to you brother!

  • Anonymous

    To: Milhouse

    The halacha is that you follow the laws of the place/country/ state that you live in. So if the law is that it is illegal to sell drugs then it is Issur and of course there are Jews that sell and od drugs too in crown heights what world do you live in.
    By reporting these people you might actually save a life. So many young Jewish kids have died in Crown heights due to drugs because no one gets “involved.”
    Wake up people get involved this is your neighborhood and your children’s lives on the line.

    • Milhouse

      1. There is no such halacha that you must obey the law. In Russia all our parents and grandparents routinely broke the law without a second thought.

      2. There is a halacha that mesirah is forbidden. There are exceptions to that, but this is not even close to one of them.

    • YMSP

      Dina DMalchusa doesn’t permit mesirah anymore than it permits Avodah Zarah (and the a”z may be less severe than mesirah R”L).

      That said, this is a very easy problem to solve – but it takes organization and guts.

      You round up 10 people who are respectable and have them stand in front of each crack house (or house of the person who sells). If the person doing it is not desperate, he’ll need to stop. If he’s desperate for money you find him some job. Either way, you stop each one by one (yes some will continue but they’ll be harder to find, people will be more scared to contact them and you’ll lower the rates significantly).

  • Jew defender

    Cannibus is an herb that the creator gave us and is taken in its raw organic form. Not only does he create it but, also the Aibishter never ceasec to cause it to grow. It is one of the ingredients in the Holy oil used to annoint Mashiach himself. There is also plenty of eveidence that it cures cancer. Do your homework before you go spouting you ignorant mouth off. There are upstanding me,bers of this community that need it for their yenemachala. And you want to commit an aveira and snitch on another Jew. So they should have to go to the goyim. Did you fall down and bump your head? You should watch a documentary about Rick Simpson, and quit yappen from goyish propaganda. Cannibus will be legal soon in New York it is inevitable

    • Milhouse

      The fact that Hashem causes something to grow doesn’t mean it’s permitted. Hashem causes a dovor acher to grow too.

      But you’re right that this drug is relatively harmless and non-addicting, and there is no logical reason why it should be illegal. The only reason it was banned in the first place was because at the time it was mostly used by blacks and hispanics.

    • Real talk...

      Millhouse your illiteracy in the matter precedes you. Kindly do this matter a favor and cease to discuss it. It was scheduled then to what it was because of the lack of knowledge they had in the United States. Their biggest mistake was to not go overseas and have a basis for a start from countries that have been around the block longer then they have. And if you still have an argument about it, talk to Dr. Sanja Gupta. He had an article in 2013 about his mistake in 1970.

    • Milhouse

      You are the illiterate one. You can’t even get Sanjay Gupta’s name right, not that he has anything to do with it. What I wrote is exactly correct, and I stand by every word of it. You will find anything to rebut it.

  • Real talk...

    Cannabis :
    Marijuana has been proven helpful for treating the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions.
    Marijuana has been shown to be effective in reducing the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. There is also appreciable evidence that marijuana reduces muscle spasticity in patients with neurological disorders. A synthetic capsule is available by prescription, but it is not as effective as smoked marijuana for many patients.

    Marijuana use rates in the Netherlands are similar to those in the U.S. despite very different policies. The Netherlands’ drug policy is one of the most nonpunitive in Europe. For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been permitted to buy and use cannabis (marijuana and hashish) in government-regulated coffee shops. This policy has not resulted in dramatically escalating marijuana use. For most age groups, rates of marijuana use in the Netherlands are similar to those in the United States. However, for young adolescents, rates of marijuana use are lower in the Netherlands than in the United States. The Dutch government occasionally revises existing marijuana policy, but it remains committed to decriminalization.

    And on top of that, there is undeniable evidence that hemp, cannabis or marijuana is about the one of maybe three things that can save our economy in a matter of a year or two. 20 Trillion dollars in debt and ongoing expenses… Anybody have a better plan ? – J

  • Drugs r bad unfocused kids in school

    Who r the sellers suppliers? Go after the drug lords

  • str

    yidden who smoke pot are “self medicating”. Either they have ADD or ADHD or something similar, and they don’t know how to relax and concentrate, thats why they are doing it.

  • tzedaka collectors

    there are several tzedaka collectors in CH that buy drugs with the money they collect…
    be careful

  • Yosef Avrohom

    We appear to have missed the point here.

    There are people from promonent families in our community who are authorizing and actually selling drugs to our children.

    Nobody seems to care even though unfortunately many children have passed away from this even though children of those involved. Note in the shiva of their child they continued in their nefarious actions.

    What kind of question of mesira is there here?

    If someone is trying to kill you chas veshalom are going to run to the Rabbi to get a heter or will you immediately call the police?.

  • Hakdlfov

    Dealers and activity can be given anonymously to the precinct . Call 71 precinct.

  • god almighty

    clearly, the 95% of you commenting on this forum are clueless halachically, lawfully, and most of all morally. Stop posting keep your thoughts to your self and if you believe in God let him do his job, he didn’t appear to you in a dream telling you how to deal with this so put your hands up and surrender to the sad truth that these things will happen and thank god your not a victim to this “epidemic”.

  • yeah I want to jews violently agressed against for a non violent victomless crime by the non jewish state.

    Where there is a demand, someone with euntrapranorial instint will try to satisfy the demand.

    If your concern is for safety of the community, I understand, but wouldent your energy be better spent going after doctors because medical mistakes kill 90k pple a year, far more than the 30k who die from illicit drug overdoses, not saying every doctor is a bad doctor but he is a provider of a dangerous service. While you’re at it you might want to go after sellers of cars because 45k, pple die a year in auto accidents.

    My question to those of you who want to see young jews violently kidnaped by the state, to be held in an inhumane circomstances, will be subject to forced sexual contact, and my not even survive the experiance, one I seriously doubt your religiosity, because from what I understand your not supposed to snitch, things ocan be handled with in the community, and two I doubt your sanity. How can you logically suport violence against a non violent actor.

    Most importantly about the selfrightious tirade s I have noticed is lack of forsight, lets just say for a moment that jewish drug dealers are verry dangerous th reat, would you prefer that young jewish boys and girls go to the other side of crown height to procure their desires? It comes to mind the desire if rabunnim to keep intermarriage at bay instituted so diatery restrictions, well at least with drugs are in the picture I dont think you will need to worry about anybody getting married.

    Thank you for smoking

    • Boruch Kraindel

      Obviously #34 you are a drug user/seller.

      Your tirade against Chazal for making issuurim on food in order to prevent inter marriage is a give away.

      Anyone selling drugs to our youth must be immediately reported and stopped. Having pity on them is cruelty to those they sell to.

      Those who prescribe/sell drugs are included.

  • Tired of hearing this ignorant talk

    To 25 and 29, your ignorance, lack of maturity and generalization is absolutely a reflection of the low point that our society has reached. No matter how natural cannabis may be, and whatever its medical applications may be, using it as a recreational drug is just another way that society uses to escape reality, have fun, and do something that temporarily takes a person “out of their senses”.

    The intoxicating effects of marijuana include relaxation, sleepiness, and mild euphoria (getting high).

    Smoking marijuana leads to fast and predictable signs and symptoms. Eating marijuana can cause slower, and sometimes less predictable effects.

    Marijuana can cause undesirable side effects, which increase with higher doses. These side effects include:

    Decreased short-term memory
    Dry mouth
    Impaired perception and motor skills
    Red eyes
    More serious side effects include panic, paranoia, or acute psychosis, which may be more common with new users or in those who already have a psychiatric disease.

    The amount and effect of these side effects varies from person to person, as well as with the amount of marijuana used.

    Marijuana is often cut with hallucinogens and other, more dangerous drugs that have more serious side effects than marijuana. These side effects may include:

    Sudden high blood pressure with headache
    Chest pain and heart rhythm disturbances
    Extreme hyperactivity and physical violence
    Heart attack
    Seizures
    Stroke
    Sudden collapse (cardiac arrest)

    There are many lives that have been ruined by marijuana, Not everyone can handle it. If you can, that is your own business. To speak about it as if it was good for everyone is ignorant, and really a reflection of your plain and simple stupidity.

    For those supposed “chassidim” that are selling and distributing here in CH, arrest them, report them and let them face the consequences. Selling and distributing drugs is a federally punishable crime. These laws must not be ignored.

  • What's the big deal?

    It’s already legal in Colorado. So, just like “gay’ marriage, it will eventually be legal nationwide. So, WHEN, WHEN it becomes legal here, then what? How are you going to stop your kid from buying it in the store any more than cigarettes, beer, moshka, or burnt banana peels (according to the “Anarchists Cook Book, “smoking that can get you high)?

  • Boruch Kraindel

    In number 39 there is mistake it should read

    “Obviously #38 you are a drug user/seller.”

    Not #34.

  • Boruch Kraindel

    Why all the hype about marijuana? Why aren’t focusing on those in our community who are selling hard drugs to our children and they are r’l dying from them?

    What kind of mesira is there concerning killers?

    • Milhouse

      A drug dealer is not a killer. He doesn’t force anyone to use, and if he didn’t exist the users would just get their supply from someone else. There is no heter at all to masser him.

    • K

      Selling drugs, like selling alcohol and nicotine, is selling poison that will destroy lives. Just as one who “sells” avoda zara is poisoning the neshama of others, and therefore is a choteh u’machti, so also providing poison to the gufim of others is a rodef (chasing after someone to kill them).

      A rodef can be massered on! Someone who constantly causes harm to others MUST be massered on!

      Including those who sell untaxed cigarettes – which entices others to smoke more because it is cheaper, they are rodfim, and one MUST masser on them!

      Same when someone giver underage youth alcohol, he is a rodef by placing these youths in harms way and also not following dina d’malchusa – one MUST mosser on him!

      It is also l;fnei iver – like supplying wine to a nozir. Not as Milhouse claims that the nozir would get the wine elsewhere! It is difficuly and complicated to find drugs and sources of poison. It is like a nozir he wants the wine on the other side of the river and you reach it to him!

      Once again Milhouse advertises his gross am haratzus as he misleads the public! There is a CHIYUV to masser on drug dealers!

  • THE IRON LAW OF PROHIBITION IS:

    mises.org/media/6628/Prohibition-Through-the-Eyes-of-Homer-Simpson

  • Yankel

    I am a Lubavitcher anyone selling drugs I will report to the NYPD and so should you, I am proud of this.