A Brooklyn drug-dealing ring tried to utilize an innovative idea of using a fleet of livery cars and a deli to run a $28,000-a-week cocaine business, according to officials.
The ring leader, 49-year old Edgar Rodriguez, oversaw a fleet of livery cars complete with Taxi and Limousine Commission plates, but they didn't take real fares, prosecutors said. Instead, the cars would pick up drug customers, take them on a short drive, and complete the drug deal.
Prosecutors said Rodriguez also ran the Nana Deli on Wilson Ave. by Dekalb Ave. in Bushwick, turning it into a stash house. His drug customers could ask for "candy" with their purchases, and they would be dealt cocaine.
On Monday, the city's special narcotics prosecutor announced police busted Rodriguez, after a raid of the alleged ringleader's Farmingdale, L.I. home turned up $300,000 cash, almost two pounds of cocaine, a .380 caliber gun, and ammo in his master bedroom.
“Brooklyn neighborhoods are safer now that the delivery service has been put out of business,” said Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan.
In addition to Rodriguez, police also arrested four other suspects, Jose Montalvo-Marti, 41, Anthony Quinones, 33, and Reymin Miguel Duran Reyes, 26, all of Brooklyn, and Angela Martinez, 50, an alleged drug supplier from Queens.
Source: nydailynews.com
