Cuomo Busts Up Drug Ring
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- May
- 8
From omnipresent GNS Albany reporter Dan Osburn:
State and local law-enforcement officials said 24 drug dealers were charged this week in a sophisticated drug cartel that was “infecting Schenectady,” state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today.
The people arrested this morning were part of a cartel that was running drugs from Long Island to Schenectady, Cuomo said.
More than $160,000 in heroin and cocaine were seized by law enforcers, as well as firearms and drug paraphernalia, according to the attorney general’s office.
The bust is an important step in stopping the flow of drugs from New York City to upstate, Cuomo said.
“This is a phenomena, a rash across upstate New York, and it’s a problem that we are going to solve,” Cuomo said.
The arrests were the culmination of a long-term drug crackdown led by Cuomo’s Organized Crime Task Force, according to the attorney general’s office. The state police’s Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the police department and district attorney of Schenectady were also involved in the operation.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
