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Photos: Don't Double Park With $750K Worth Of Heroin In The Trunk
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Published Aug 11, 2013
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The NYPD seized around $750,000 worth of heroin from the trunk of a car in Inwood yesterday.
According to a release, two plainclothes members of the 34th Precinct saw a man toss a duffel bag into the trunk of a Nissan Altima around West 207th Street and Sherman Avenue. This alone is not suspicious, but as the release notes, "The officers were aware that this particular block is a known drug prone location," and a law was already being broken: the Nissan was double-parked.
When the officers pulled in front of the car, the man who threw the bag into the trunk fled. A man sitting in the driver's seat remained and consented to a search of his trunk which revealed 25,000 glassines of heroin—close to 20 pounds. Police arrested 26-year-old Joancis Delacruz-Arias and charged him with criminal possession of a controlled substance. The second suspect remains at large, and the investigation is ongoing.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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