What If You’re The One Who Gave A Drug Front A Four-Star Review On Yelp?

Would you question what you wrote on the listing? Would you start to question your foodie bona fides? Remember, if you ever think that you might be in a drug front, you’re probably in a drug front. Key tipoffs should include inattentive waitstaff, inconsistent food, the large group of menacing-looking men sitting over there the back and of course the expansive and perhaps overly generous delivery area.

Then there are the more obvious clues . . . for example, the weapons cache, as the Queens D.A. press release details (.pdf):

As part of the investigation, officers executed five court-authorized search warrants and recovered four firearms, including a defaced Colt .38 caliber revolver; a defaced sawed off Mosburg shotgun; a .380 Sig Sauer semi-automatic and a Remington 870 shotgun with a scope. Also seized were more than a kilo of cocaine; 777 glassines of heroin (more than one ounce) and two ounces of marijuana; as well as $3,520.

New York City’s Red State Problem

Staten Island, known for its brisk prescription painkiller business, seems to be the place in the city to procure hillbilly heroin:

Prescription pills were illegally sold for $20 a pop alongside bagels and beer at a Staten Island deli, officials charge as part of a sting that led to 25 arrests.

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Nel Boy Bagels on Amboy Road in Great Kills was targeted as part of an investigation begun last fall dubbed Operation Bitter Pill, officials announced on Saturday.

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Undercover detectives bought 2500 Oxycodone pills, 368 Percocet pills and 245 Xanax pills as part of the sting, along with 300 grams of cocaine and two assault weapons, a Tec-9 and a 9mm gun, officials say.

They Can And They Did

Go big and stay home:

A fugitive fool who taunted cops on his Facebook page, “Catch me if you can, I’m in Brooklyn” — has been captured by U.S. marshals.

And guess where.

Victor Burgos was sitting at a computer with his Facebook page open when a task force of marshals and NYPD detectives tracked him down in an apartment on Jefferson St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

That’s Disappointing

The lady who a judge sentenced to indefinite jury duty after accusing her of lying about her biases on her juror’s questionnaire was let go:

Juror 799 sat off by herself in the jury assembly room for most of Wednesday, calmly flipping through newspapers and a pamphlet entitled “A Guide to Continuing Your Education After Prison,” until the judge sent a clerk and a deputy marshal to fetch her in the late afternoon.

He told her she was free to go, but that he would dock her $40-a-day juror pay. She didn’t argue.

“The purpose of this order was to attempt to create some consequences or disincentive for people who intentionally obstruct the court’s ability to empanel a fair and impartial jury,” he said.

Holi Moly

Cops shut down the yearly Holi festival in Richmond Hill on the grounds that “you can’t have powder”:

For some 25 years, Hindus in Richmond Hill have held a parade to celebrate the ancient religious holiday Holi — the Festival of Colors. Participants traditionally throw colored powder at one another, but Sunday cops seized loads of the powder from paradegoers. “They walked around and started grabbing from anyone they saw,” said parade organizer Vishnu Mahadeo, 50, president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council. “They said the law said you can’t have powder.”

More detail: “Phagwah parade,” Queens Courier, March 22, 2011.

See also: “The Problem With Community Boards”.

Location Scout: Phagwah Parade.