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Drug dealers text customers: ‘We’re closed for Shabbat’

These dealers answer to a “higher” authority.

An observant bunch of Brooklyn drug slingers announced to their clientele through mass texts they would be working shortened hours — in honor of Shabbat, according to a criminal complaint.

The group of five men were slapped with with a slew of drug and conspiracy charges after after investigators found that the men had been texting customers with detailed instructions about how to pick up their supplies of cocaine, heroin and oxycodone — and even warned against showing up after sundown on a Friday or before sundown on Saturday.

Prosecutors charge that Jack Zibak, Jack Zaibak, Eduard Sorin, David Gerowitz and Philip Mandel sold the drugs from their den on Bedford Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, including more than 23,000 pills of oxycodone carrying a street value of approximately $460,000, according to the criminal complaint.

They allegedly used a variety of methods to obtain the pills, including using stolen prescription sheets.

The crew regularly sent out mass texts to customers indicating their their abridged hours in observance of the holy day, including one message that said their operation would be “closed for Shabbat.”

“We are closing 7:30 on the dot and we will reopen Saturday 8:15 so if u need anything you have 45mins to get what you want,” one of the messages read.

Cops raided their pious operation on April 20 after a six month investigation referred to as “Only After Sundown,” where police seized approximately 900 glassines of heroin, 335 oxycodone pills, a small quantity of cocaine, and additional quantities of Xanax, Suboxone and Klonopin.

A sawed-off shotgun with ammunition was also recovered, as was a Blackberry that was used to send texts to customers, prosecutors allege.