Posted on 11/01/2023 12:46:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A contractor hired to renovate an abandoned Queens home stumbled upon a drug stash with a street value of nearly $11 million, along with a stockpile of deadly firearms and ammunition, authorities said Wednesday.
After the home in Bellerose was sold, the contractor hired to renovate it discovered millions of dollars worth of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, as well as several handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, according to officials.
The shocked contractor, who discovered the drugs in May, took pictures inside the home on 88th Road, called 911 and later went to the 105th Precinct stationhouse to make a report.
“One can’t even calculate how many lives would have been cut short or ruined by the millions of dollars worth of lethal narcotics and deadly weapons,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Wednesday. “Our families, friends and neighborhoods are all safer thanks to this massive seizure.”
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After the contractor left, a suspect was seen on surveillance video running to and from the abandoned property with two coolers in his hands.
Cops later determined that the coolers contained 15 kilos of narcotics.
Months later, cops arrested Victor Rodriguez, 43, who they say is the man in the video, and charged him with conspiracy, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminally using drug paraphernalia, criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of pistol ammunition.
He was arraigned Friday and if convicted faces 25 years to life in prison.
Among the items recovered were nearly 1.5 million glassine envelopes containing either heroin or heroin and fentanyl with a street value of $10 million.
Cops also found eight kilos of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl with a street value of $500,000.
Police recovered loaded guns including five semiautomatic ghost guns, ghost gun kits, 200 rounds of ammunition and ammunition feeding devices.
Nice. They have an address, photos of the stash the contractor took, videos of the perp running in and out of the place with coolers full of suspected drugs, and they take “months” to arrest the guy.
First rate police force ya got there Mr. Mayor of NYC.
Interesting. What do you feed ammunition? Meal worms? Crickets? Gang bangers?
I love bangers and beans for breakfast.
Somebody in the FBI is gonna get fired over this!
Now that right there is funny
“Deadly” firearms? As opposed to medical firearms?
As opposed to NON deadly arms?
And 200 rounds of ammo 🙄. That’s not enough for a day at the range.
Puts a new twist on my armory.
All my firearms and ammunition is “non-deadly”.
As of today.
A day heck many times I have shot that up in a couple of hours.
We think too much alike. 😂. And, they consider that a stockpile of weapons? Slackers!
No cash?
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Wednesday. “Our families, friends and neighborhoods are all safer thanks to this massive seizure.”
No they’re not. Not in the slightest. You need the people who stored the guns there ya incompetent fool.
The contractor should have loaded a truckload of building materials and slipped the lonely abandoned firearms and ammunition into the other inert debris being hauled off and then told the cops about the drugs.
That would have been the humane thing to do.
I think they mean a magazine.
Yes, because they weren't out arresting Catholics.
Bttt.
5.56mm
[Contractor stumbles upon $11M fentanyl drug and gun stash in abandoned Queens home]
Talk about the King of Queens!!
No, no, no, not Dylan Mulvaney.....
Would you?
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