Tag: drugs

Drug manufacturers have quietly expanded their local presence in recent years, but are the cure for what ails LI’s economy?

Three Nassau County police officers were among 11 people arrested in four indictments alleging a local drug dealing ring and a thwarted Long Island casino robbery plot, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

The drug ring, dubbed the “110 crew,” peddled heroin outside hotels, restaurants, strip malls, big box retailers and coffee shops.

The widening investigation into the pair of drug distribution networks took shape after patrol officers on the East End noticed “a significant upward trend” in heroin and cocaine drug busts beginning last September, the DA’s office said.

In marijuana enthusiasts’ circles, today is a day of special celebration. Across the country and globe, devotees of the green, leafy cannabis plant are rejoicing—and smoking—en masse.