NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — The NYPD made its biggest cocaine bust in over 10 years, Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Friday.
Over months, the NYPD and New Jersey DEA seized more than 580 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $10 million from a multistate drug operation, she said.
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The investigation concluded in the confiscation of $170,000 in cash, firearms and at least one arrest across New Jersey and New York City.
“Think about the scale of what was intercepted here,” Tisch said. “That is an enormous quantity of narcotics that will never be … sold or distributed in our neighborhoods.”…