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More than 250 pounds of various drugs worth roughly $24 million were seized in a major Bronx bust as a top Drug Enforcement Administration federal agent warned New York is “under siege” with a flood of deadly drugs. About 110 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, in addition to 50 pounds of crystal meth and up to another 75,000 counterfeit pills believed to contain fentanyl were confiscated from a stash apartment in the Mount Hope neighborhood, authorities said. “Data doesn’t lie, New York is under siege by criminal drug networks flooding our city streets with fentanyl, killing people at record...

An ice cream truck driver is in jail charged with peddling more than snow cones and fudgecicles from his vehicle in Albuquerque’s South Valley. The 21-year-old driver, Steven Gonzales was arrested Monday and charged with drug dealing after deputies say he was pulled over with $50 worth of marijuana in his truck. “I’m really disappointed,” said Lonnie Nettles, who has lived in the area of Barcelona and Wilkinson SW for 50 years. “We used to have a good neighborhood. Any more, it’s kind of going down.” “I’m really shocked,” said fellow neighborhood resident Argelia Barraza. “So I guess it will...