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Heroin, coke tossed out window during drug raid near Columbia University

Kilos of coke and heroin went out the window and down the drain during a dramatic drug bust last month at a massive, 35-story apartment complex that is a popular rental site for Columbia University students.

The bust happened March 20 at 3333 Broadway, adjacent to Columbia University’s ongoing $6.2 billion West Harlem campus expansion and home to a mix of Section 8 subsidized residents and gentrifiers paying upwards of $3,000 an apartment.

Chicago native Rudy Cabrera, 38, allegedly hurled a kilo of heroin — a packet weighing 2.1 pounds — out a 13th floor living room window as cops broke down the door, citywide Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in announcing the bust this morning.

He allegedly didn’t fling it very far. The drugs landed on a ventilation grate right below the window.

Still more kilos were being flushed down the toilet and kitchen sink as the door went down, prosecutors said.

Cabrera pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court later this morning and was ordered held without bail on enough drug possession charges to keep the predicate felon in prison for as many as 24 years, a spokeswoman for Brennan said.

He is additionally accused of breaking the hand of a Manhattan North narcotics cop while resisting arrest.

The apartment at C13G was a hotbed of drug and gun activity, according to court papers. Cabrera’s codefendants, Rafael Olivares, 55, who lived at the apartment, and Juan Honorio, 49, who lived one floor up, sold a total of six guns to undercover cops there during four transactions this past December through February.

All three plus a fourth defendant, Jaime Gonzalez-Campo, of Elizabeth, NJ, were hit with drug felonies and were due to plead not guilty today.