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Women discover they’re in love triangle after drug kingpin pinched

Two women dating the same drug kingpin learned they were caught in a bizarre love triangle after cops tossed then in the same jail cell for their roles in  trafficking scheme that lead to a dope bust in the Bronx, police sources said.

Carlos Medina, 59 — who has a history of using women as high-ranking drug-pushers — was arrested at his Yonkers home along with a girlfriend in the morning, and cops later busted another girlfriend who is also involved in the drug ring. The ladies didn’t know about each other until after they were arrested, cops said.

Cops found the dope stashed in a Jacuzzi and in a pigeon coop rooftop, cops and law enforcement sources said.

They discovered  ½ a kilo of heroin, 2 ½ kilos of cocaine, and a revolver inside a trap door to the Jacuzzi along with ½ a kilo of cocaine inside the pigeon coop on the roof and another handgun inside the nightstand of his stash house on Revere Avenue near Harding Avenue in the Bronx, police said.

His drug minion lovers Sonia Rivera aka “Green Eyes” of Manhattan and Socorro Vivas from the Bronx have also been indicted for receiving and stashing the drugs, police said.

Medina allegedly sent  Rivera to Puerto Rico to deliver $25,000 and to arrange the delivery of where six kilos of cocaine. Vivas  is the ex-wife of Alex Cruz, a drug pusher who was also arrested in connection to the trafficking.

Investigators intercepted a shipment of drugs with a street value of at least $300,000 on Nov. 26, 2013 which Medina orchestrated, wiretaps show, police sources said. When the package didn’t arrive they contacted the U.S Postal Service several times trying to locate it, authorities said.

Medina was originally pinched in 1986 on federal conspiracy, drug, and firearm charges, served a thirty year sentence and was on parole, cops said. A small jewelry booth on West 47 Street, in the diamond district called Excellent Watches and Jewelry was used as a front for his parole officer, and only turned up low end watches, law enforcement said.

But Medina was known for “spending money left and right,” according to a law enforcement source. He made at least three trips to Puerto Rico since 2011, only to return the same day.

Four other drug pushers were arrested. Alex Cruz and Radames Coppin allegedly dealt in New York City, and David Rivera and Julio Galarza distributed in Connecticut.

Medina was also caught making two sales personally to undercover detectives in Dec. 2013 and to another one on Jan. 14, 2014.

Medina faces at least fifteen years in prison and a maximum of thirty years if convicted on the top count of Criminal Sale of Controlled Substance.