{"id":6668,"date":"2011-08-23T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2011-08-23T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:07:52","slug":"new_york_citys_red_state_problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/new_york_citys_red_state_problem.html","title":{"rendered":"New York City&#8217;s Red State Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staten Island, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/must_be_why_everyone_on_staten_island_is_so_mellow.html\">known for its brisk prescription painkiller business<\/a>, seems to be the place in the city to procure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2011\/08\/21\/2011-08-21_staten_island_deli_sold_illegal_prescription_pills_alongside_bagels_and_sandwich.html\">hillbilly heroin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. . . . Nel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}