Rockaway drug-ring bustBy MATTHEW NESTEL, NY Post
City narcotics cops shut down a massive drug ring that was operating out of a Far Rockaway housing project, authorities said.
Fifty suspected drug pushers were hauled in on Wednesday for selling dope out of the Hammel Houses on Rockaway Beach Boulevard.
Cops made as many as 174 undercover drug deals during the six-month sting and confiscated a stashes of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, crack and other opiates, according to Capt. Thomas Marren of Queens Narcotics.
The dealers included members of the Bloods and the Crips. Cops are looking for 13 more suspects wanted in connection with the drug ring.
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thank you Queens Narcotics detectives.
good job. be careful out there.
In pubic housing - if your convicted of a crime that originated from aa apartment - doesn't the resident lose the apartment - no matter whom it was leased to?
legalize it. that will take away their power.
Public housing in neighborhoods where it doesn't belong, such as in the Rockaways, Throgs Neck, Mariners Harbor, Coney Island, etc... should be demolished.
And what about MS 13 (aka: MS XIII or MS X3) who's gang graffiti can be seen in the Latino section running down 162nd Street south of Norther B'lvd. ?
There was already one shooting near a laundromat there!
"Public housing in neighborhoods where it doesn't belong, such as in the Rockaways, Throgs Neck, Mariners Harbor, Coney Island, etc... should be demolished."
I'm all for demolishing ugly "towers in the park" public housing and replacing it with something more urban and contextual, but your statement sounds a little.... well, let's call it "exclusionary". Others might call it something else.
It's all about jobs. If people don't have jobs they will use their welfare/government checks to make their own form of capitalism.
Go out to the rockaways. Tell me how many jobs are out there. Then see if you WOULDN'T sell drugs if it was a matter of becoming homeless.
"I'm all for demolishing ugly "towers in the park" public housing and replacing it with something more urban and contextual, but your statement sounds a little.... well, let's call it "exclusionary". Others might call it something else."
I have an idea that will work just as well, how about charging a fixed rent for certain targeted public housing developments instead of the current rate of 25% of a tenant's income? If significant vacancies start to emerge, then what needs to be done will be done. If not, and if instead their demographics shift from drug dealers and welfare recipients to college students and young families, then at least something good came out of it and can stick around for the time being. As for any development that is at least 70 years old, they should come down, end of story. The people who will inevitably cry "Racism!" and "Ethnic Cleansing!" are just rabble-rousers with no real solutions, and who have a vested interest in keeping poor people dependent on the government.
Besides, other major cities such as Newark, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc... have torn down most of their public housing, with Atlanta having managed to tear down their last large units just seven months ago, what's stopping us?
SEND IN CURTIS SLEEZE-WA!
He will take care of those "Uhhzzi-Tote-in, Drugg Suck-in, psychopathic kill-in machines dat are dher ta tug and mug ya!"
Hey liberal asshole: They aren't selling drugs to stave off homelessness,they already live virtually rent free.It's to get the lexus,the 55" tv......etc The old "i gotsta get paid" without doing an honest days work.
they can't commute like other people do to Manhattan? Some people commute from New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut?
they don't sell drugs to stave off homelessness - a welfare check does that or a job.
confiscated a stashes of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, crack and other opiates
Please!
These guys were simply following our President's example - they are "community organizers", not drug dealers!
They weren't selling "drugs", they were helping out terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients by providing them with medical marijuana and prescription crack!
Once again, another example of RAY-CISM!!!
This is just stupid!!!I use to live in Hammels Housing back in the day. So I can speak on this subject. First of all some people out there have no respect or pride for where they live, and it is making it very hard for the ones that need goverment housing.What needs to be done is a screening of all people over again (Meaning) recertification of everyone and building. Inpections of the apartments making sure that the residents are doing their parts as well as public housing. Also make it mandatory that people out there obtain employment or get at lease a interview for employment.This will be done monthly! yeah some are saying that jobs are few, yes they are but if They can sell drugs or do illegal activities for survival then why not look for employment to keep your place.Then you will see a change!Knock down the apartments NO!!!! But have the people who are allowed to stay that are not causing trouble work to keep their places, this will not only have them feeling good about themselves but also taking pride of their environment, And please can we stop playing the Racism card if you're wrong you're wrong "Man up or Woman up" and do your part!! grow up!
The streets is the only option due to a lacK of jobs so KEEP HUSTLING! !!!!!
if you hustle just tell your family how you want to be buried!
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