Posted on 08/28/2026 3:28:19 PM PDT by CFW
It’s snowing in August.
Police executed the “largest cocaine seizure” in decades this week when they seized 580 pounds of the cartel-tied drugs stashed in a Long Island City storage unit, officials announced Friday.
Nelson Salcedo, of Englewood, New Jersey, was arrested in the middle of moving the alleged $10 million in coke Wednesday in what cops say is tied to a wide-reaching drug trafficking scheme.
“This was a massive shipment of narcotics, tied to an interstate trafficking network with connections across the country, including in New York and New Jersey. And because of the work of the investigators standing with me today, those drugs will never make it into the streets of New York City,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Investigators were tipped off to Salcedo’s alleged scheme while following other suspected traffickers who were moving drugs between New Jersey and Upper Manhattan, Tisch said.
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Salcedo and two others have been arrested so far as part of the sting.
The man who accepted the deliveries has not yet been arrested.
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I thought immediately of Hunter.
But then I thought of what he said when cocaine was found at the Biden White House. Was it his?
“It most definitely was not” and adding, “I would never have forgotten my drugs.”
Flock cameras? No way...
If it were Hunter’s, he’d just plead “personal use” — “Hey, I’m not a dealer! This was just my stash for Labor Day weekend.”
“Flock cameras? No way...”
With all the cameras, they should have a recording of that cocaine from the time it crossed the border until it ended up in that warehouse.
BTW, why doesn’t both the southern and northern borders have thousands of Flock cameras?
Defense attorney wins over judge who declares this was just for the defendant’s personal use. Interfering with the 12 step recovery program of the man is against the law.
Dismissed.
Man, the NYPD are going to be ecstatic once most of the evidence is logged on. I wonder how much will end up back on the street.
RE: That’s a lot of coke!
A great deal of things would go better with that much Coke.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=images+scarface+movie++piles+of+cocaine+on+desk&FORM=HDRSC3
RE: NYPD evidence....
One evidence office touch of one key on a computer and it’s gone. Officially.
Storage Wars ping!
There goes my weekend. /s
Will the mayor be spreading it around, socialist style?
“ BTW, why doesn’t both the southern and northern borders have thousands of Flock cameras?”
Some do BUT the Islamocommie party has shut the flock cameras down in most blue states and cities to facilitate their kickback $$ and drugs.
Democrats could fund the midterm elections with that much cocaine.
Has Ayatollah Mamdani called for the arrest of the police who broke the case yet?
Won’t that much weight tip over Long Island?
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