A weekend raid on a Bronx warehouse netted 112 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of close to $4 million, vacuum-packed inside a large safe, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
“It’s a major drug ring,” one source said. “That [amount’s] a big number.”
A two-week drug investigation by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force and the NYPD’s Bronx Narcotics led to the brick warehouse in Hunts Point at about 4 p.m. Saturday, when two men were stopped leaving the Oak Point Avenue property in a car.
Authorities obtained search warrants for the car and the warehouse after a drug-sniffing dog indicated there was contraband inside the vehicle, sources said.
One kilo — about 2.2 pounds — of cocaine and an undisclosed amount of cash were concealed in a trapdoor under the SUV’s back seat. The two men, both Hispanic and in their late 30s, were arrested.
Inside the warehouse, authorities discovered another 50 kilos of coke in vacuum-packed containers stacked inside a big double-door safe, law-enforcement sources said.
The drugs were apparently shipped to the warehouse packed inside machine parts, sources said.