53 Charged in NYC Open-Air Drug Market

37 Arrested at Housing Projects Near Yankee Stadium; Stockpiles of Cash, Guns, and Drugs Seized

(AP)  Federal prosecutors charged 53 people on Wednesday with running open-air drug markets at two housing projects near Yankee Stadium.

Among the drugs for sale: Heroin with the brand name "American Gangster" - an apparent reference to the 2007 film starring Denzel Washington as a Harlem drug lord.

Early morning raids on Wednesday resulted in 37 arrests and seizure of cash, guns and stockpiles of heroin and crack cocaine. The takedown followed a yearlong investigation of violent drug crews by the New York Police Department, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

"As grounds crews were preparing Yankee Stadium for Game Six of the World Series, (federal agents and police officers) were doing their own house cleaning, so to speak," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a news conference.

The other defendants were either already in custody or still at large, authorities said.

Authorities began the investigation after seeing a spike in shootings - at least six fatal - in and around the Melrose Houses and the adjacent Jackson Houses in the South Bronx. About 5,000 people live in the projects about seven blocks east of Yankee Stadium.

During the probe, undercover officers made dozens of purchases on the street of crack and heroin, authorities said. The heroin came in $10 bags stamped with brand names including "Magic" and "Poison."

If convicted of conspiracy to distribute drugs, several of the defendants would face a maximum term of life in prison.

[Harden_Tar]

"The Great Society" at work. I blam LBJ.

[berlinfoto-2009]

What is part of American Culture, and what is part of American CounterPro? How much of American Society is being Manipulated?
May I suggest that the White Middle Class Americans watch the 1970's era movie "SUPPER FLY" Directed by Gordon Parks. What is the message that a Young Black Male suppose to get from watching this movie?
May I suggest that Black American Society check an see who the father to Jim Morrison lead singer of the Doors was. Who were the parents of the lead singer of Buffalo Springfield was.
How has Gangster Rap come about?
Hindsight they say is 20 / 20, but the Hindsight from looking into these types of questions can help us understand what is happing to us today.
America is a entire society of "AGENTS PROVOCATEURS, who not only work to get us convicted of crimes, but to steer the whole of society.
Are we to become the Weimar Republic, under the presidentships of Bush and Obama, and have a future Hitler as dictator.

[armyoftwelve]

They should have just bombed the place.

The way to win the war on drugs is to declare war on USERS.