Pubdate: Sat, 25 May 2002
Source: Daily Gazette (NY)
Copyright: 2002 The Gazette Newspapers
Contact:  http://www.dailygazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/105
Author: Associated Press

TWO TONS OF COCAINE SEIZED IN NYC

NEW YORK - Two tons of cocaine found in a warehouse in Brooklyn was 
described Friday as a "historic seizure" - the largest confiscation of 
drugs in New York by law enforcement authorities in at least five years.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the discovery Thursday night during 
a surveillance in the Park Slope section would have a ripple effect on 
crime in the city.

"Just think of the amount of violence that would occur over 2 tons of 
cocaine and the lives impacted by it," Kelly said.

The raid on the warehouse came after members of the New York Drug 
Enforcement Task Force watched a car involved in previous narcotics 
investigations enter a warehouse and later leave with a heavily weighted 
rear section.
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