Monday, July 02, 2007

Operation Crown Strike arrests made

Untitled Document: "Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes Thursday announced the arrest of 11 people charged with running illegal drug operations in Crown Heights. The investigation began in the summer of 2006, when community leaders, at a routine meeting with Hynes, expressed outrage over the armed, organized drug dealers terrorizing their neighborhood.

A joint investigation by the Brooklyn DA’s Office and the NYPD uncovered several independently operating drug gangs dealing narcotics at multiple locations throughout the section of Crown Heights surrounding the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Extensive video surveillance showed one dealer weighing out cocaine on a scale and another drug dealer using binoculars to monitor the block for police activity.

In addition to counter surveillance, the highly organized drug dealers used techniques such as changing clothes frequently to disguise their appearances and purposely neglecting to repair rotting and broken floor boards in drug stash houses, hoping to injure police in the event of a raid. While executing a search warrant, a KCDA detective investigator fell six feet through a damaged floor and broke her arm."

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