Cases of Note

Each year, OSNP Special Investigations Bureau and Trial Division assistants direct a significant number of investigations and prosecute a yearly average of 3,000 felony narcotics arrests. These efforts lead to the dismantling of major organizations, the removal of violent street gangs and the seizure of thousands of pounds of illegal drugs.

2010

Drug Trafficking Ring Dismantled and Firearm Seized Following Year-Long Probe at Albany Houses

Twelve Arrested in Sweep of Tompkins Houses in Brooklyn: Crack Cocaine and Firearm Seized

City’s First Drug Kingpin Charged Under New Law: Fifteen Charged in Operation Cocaine Siesta

Seventy Pounds of Cocaine And Nine Firearms Seized From Stash Houses in Brooklyn and Queens: Four Arrested

Two Drug Crews Dismantled In Operation Manhattan Project: 17 Arrested

$1 Million In Heroin Seized From Bronx Mill: Four Members Of Drug Trafficking Ring Arrested

28 Narcotics Dealers Nabbed In Operation Opera House

2009

Correction Officer Arrested Attempting To Buy 50 Glassines Of Heroin

61 Pounds of Cocaine Seized in North Brooklyn

12 Charged in Brooklyn Crack Sales Ring

Traffickers Concealed Heroin Bags in "Build-A-Bear Toys

Bounty Hunters Arrested With Three Kilos of cocaine

Illegal Drugs Delivered to City Nightclubs

New York Traffickers Run Dominican Murder Ring

Cocaine to Go - Bronx Pizza Parlor Delivers Narcotics

Roman Brothers Indictment

Wall Street’s T.G.I.Friday’s Cocaine and Marijuana Dealers Nabbed — Restaurant Padlocked

Sing Sing Correction Officer Indicted on Top Narcotics Charges

2008

29 Arrests at Diego Beekman/Milbrook/Johnson Houses

21 Arrests at Kingsborough Houses

Cocaine Hidden in Kiddie Toys

400 Pounds of Cocaine Seized and Four Arrested

Child Care Center Peddling Marijuana Endangerment Charges Filed

Heroin Mill on East 75th Street is shut down

Indictment Shutters Heroin Mill below Childcare Center

Man Arrested on Drugs and Weapons Possession Charges for Drug Dealing from his Morrisania apartment

Arrests and Indictments of Crack/Cocaine Dealers at the Strauss Houses

2007

Ten Prosecuted for Selling Crack at Randolph Houses

City Repairman Caught Up in Drug Ring Smackdown

Drug Imposter Nabbed

State Youth Counselor Indicted for Heroin Sales

Arrests and Indictments at Langston Hughes Houses

Helmets Hide Heroin in Port Authority

Westchester Teacher Pleads Guilty to Selling Cocaine

35 Indicted for Drug Dealing at Noble Drew Ali Housing Complex

Pot Luck Runs Out - Dealer's Fridge Not-So-Cool Now

35 Pounds of Marijuana Recovered drom DEA Neighbor

Officer Arrested for Transporting Cocaine

2006

Cocaine sold at the Park Lane Hotel

Dyckman Street Marina Arrests

Purple Haze Network Unraveled

10 Kilograms of cocaine for $160,000

15 Pounds of heroin seized at Bruckner Mall

Cocaine Sales Shut Down on Pitkin Avenue

Prescription Drug Ring Exposed

Former Middleboro chicken farmer gets 6 years in pen

Conviction of the last three members of a robbery ring, offshoot of Operation Untouchables

Drug Dealer nabbed with $9 Million worth of cocaine in the Bronx gets 25-to-Life

2005

Fugitive Wanted for Murder and Kidnapping Nabbed

321 Edgecombe Avenue Targeted

Home of The "Purple Haze" Closed

2004

Kingpin Brothers Convicted

Two Tons of Marijuana Seized

$10 Million in Cocaine Smuggled in Fake Yuccas

110 Pounds of Cocaine Seized in Jackson Heights

Drug Group Linked to Two Deaths

Investigation Nabs Fugitive Rape Suspect

2003

4,000 Pounds of Cocaine Seized in Queens

38 Major Dealers Indicted and Five Major Drug Organizations Dismantled

Two Arrested in Staten Island with 125 Pounds of Cocaine

Broadway's Cocaine City Shut Down

Gang of Masked Dealers Indicted

Eleven Million Dollars Worth of Cocaine Seized in The Bronx