This T-shirt is a little too blunt.
An alleged East Harlem drug gangster must not have known he was going to be arrested and hauled before a Manhattan Supreme Court judge yesterday — or else he might have thought twice about wearing a T-shirt that read, “Break it Roll it Light it Smoke it Faded.”
Antonius Nedd, 26, was one of 19 alleged members of the 20 Blocc and Flow Boyz crack gangs that prosecutors say terrorized residents at Wagner Houses and Taino Towers for three years. The gangs callously peddled drugs in front of little kids steps away from a community center and in project playgrounds, said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
“Today, we effectively closed an open-air drug market in East Harlem,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in announcing their indictments, the fruit of a joint investigation by the NYPD Organized Crime Control and Manhattan North Narcotics bureaus and prosecutors with the DA’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit.
Undercovers infiltrated both groups and purchased crack from the defendants, officials said.
The indictment represents the seventh takedown of a Harlem drug gang in 18 months, Vance said.