Posted: Saturday, 11 October 2008 9:58AM
Deli Dealing Drugs, "Hot Kielbasa" Really Cocaine
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty ``hot kielbasa'' -- for snorting, not eating.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the kielbasa was really cocaine -- not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market.
According to a criminal complaint, the ``hot kielbasa'' was kept in the basement.
Twenty-six suspects are under arrest, including the butcher, after an FBI informant visited the shop in response to the message: ``Come to the store, I have hot kielbasa for you.''
Law enforcement officials say the ring includes John Guarnieri, a nephew of Louis Eppolito, the former NYPD detective convicted of murdering eight people on the orders of a Mafia boss.
Guarnieri is a Department of Sanitation police lieutenant. Defense attorney Ken Montgomery says he doesn't think the suspect is ``a major player.'' . |
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