This candy was smokin’.
An indicted East Harlem gang sold pot out of Sour Power candy wrappers for $10 a bag, officials said yesterday.
“If you want the sour, come to 118th and Lexington,” the group rapped on YouTube, officials say.
Steerers on the street would lead buyers to the bodega on that corner — Nassin Market at 1901 Lexington Ave. — and the allegedly complicit bodega owners would make a sale.
The pot’s packaging was a pun on the “sour diesel” strain — identifying a particularly potent kind of marijuana, officials said.
“It has a real pungent, cat-urine smell,” said Detective John Hourican of Manhattan North Narcotics. “You know you’re buying the sour diesel if it smells like cat urine.”
Fifteen alleged gang members have been indicted on charges including conspiracy and the sale of marijuana and crack. In addition, two bodega employees have been busted and city officials shuttered the bodega as a nuisance.
Since January 2011, the blocks neighboring that intersection have been the site of five fatal shootings, 22 nonfatal shootings and 33 reports of shots being fired, said Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.
“To make this neighborhood safer, law enforcement is using a coordinated approach to target drug sales there,” he said.
The investigation was a joint effort of the DA’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit and the NYPD’s Manhattan North Narcotics Bureau.