B'klyn man busted for selling cocaine on Craiglist

The New York Post ^ | April 8, 2010 | LAURA ITALIANO

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A Brooklyn personal trainer with a long record of armed robberies may be heading back to prison after getting busted allegedly selling cocaine on Craiglist.

Kinrod Priester, 37, was busted after an undercover investigator for the city’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor answered his alleged ad, met him Wednesday night at a crowded Starbucks on 23rd St. and Fifth Avenue, and purchased four grams of coke.

The muscle-bound alleged dealer shook loose as two investigators tried to cuff him outside the store — only to be apprehended after quickly tripping on some wire tree fencing en route to his nearby Mercedes, said a law enforcement source.

Priester is employed by New York City Planet Fitness in Brooklyn. He’s spent all but four of the last 18 years in prison for two armed robberies. He was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.

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Priester is employed by New York City Planet Fitness in Brooklyn

Good to know in case you're interested in giving your business to companies that employ incredibly, breathtakingly stupid career criminals, drug dealers and thugs..

 

Planet Fitness® -- The Judgment Free Zone®

249 Duffield Street
(in downtown Brooklyn, at the Fulton Mall)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 718.852.0045

Club Hours
Open 24 hours Monday through Friday!
Open 12:00 AM Monday thru 10:00 PM Friday
Saturday & Sunday 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM

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[iowamark]

I was hoping that they would quote the Craigslist ad, but no.

[Stoat]

I was hoping that they would quote the Craigslist ad, but no.

Given the outline of the perp, I have no doubt that it was a masterpiece of erudtion.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Aw, so sad he will have to give up his Mercedes. But the Police probably saved his life, from heart attack due to using steroids and cocaine prior to vigorous exercise. He should be thankful for the chance to rehabilitate himself.

However, it is more likely he will be out in a few years, physically stronger but morally even more decrepit. And so the cycle continues...

[Kellis91789]

Another stupid waste of taxpayer money apprehending , trying, and incarcerating someone for a non-crime. We learned nothing from Prohibition even though we had enough sense to repeal it.

[Thunder90]

I would not, for my life, step foot into a Planet Fatness gym. The liberal mentality runs rampant in the gym.
They prohibit bodybuilders, deadlifts, complex lifts, and grunting. They do not have the weight selection I need to complete my workouts (I Crossfit). And, they have a “Lunk Alarm” that they set off when anyone grunts or drops weights. Even an accidental drop or breathing heavy will set it off.

[Stoat]

WOW...thanks very much for the insight. Sounds like an absolutely awful place. Your description plus their apparent lack of interest in doing criminal background checks on their employees makes it a place I wouldn’t want to even walk into either. One naturally wonders how many other violent felons are working there, among the partially-dressed ladies and with access to members’ personal address and credit card information.

[Republic of Texas]

So it’s just housewives and gay guys there?

[MinorityRepublican]

Your description plus their apparent lack of interest in doing criminal background checks on their employees makes it a place I wouldn’t want to even walk into either. One naturally wonders how many other violent felons are working there, among the partially-dressed ladies and with access to members’ personal address and credit card information.

Good point there. But as a society, isn't it morally right that we give those felons a second chance sometimes?

[Stoat]

Indeed I agree, but I believe also that there’s a time and a place for giving a second chance to different sorts of people. I think that when law-abiding, decent people go to a fitness club where there is partial disrobing and where employees have access to people’s home address and credit card information, there should be a different and a higher standard expected of the employees of such a place than, for example, at a car wash where the employees have access to sponges, squeegees and towels and that’s pretty much it....or at some industrial facility where the employee only drives a forklift. I think that customers have different expectations of employees at different kinds of places, and a fitness club ‘should’ hold itself to a higher standard than to hire people who have spent much of their lives in prison for violent criminal activity, and then to allow them to interact VERY closely with people who are made somewhat vulnerable by the nature of the situation. People deserve better protection and consideration at a place like this, and I think that most people ‘assume’ that they are being looked after, at least to some degree, in terms of their safety when they go to a fitness club.