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One of the best parts of the City, specifically Uptown Manhattan / Bronx a.k.a. Washington Heights is the haze. If you ever been to the heights, then you know all about that haze, piff, purple haze.
Well here is some old news I just found out:
NEW YORK POST - N.Y. PURPLE HAZE DAZE OVER
N.Y. PURPLE HAZE DAZE OVER
By MURRAY WEISS Criminal Justice Editor
December 18, 2006 -- Cops have busted a sophisticated and violent drug operation that provided high-flying Big Apple customers with the most expensive and potent marijuana in city history: a special brand called Purple Haze that cost $560 an ounce, The Post has learned.
The power-packed weed, grown in hothouses in south Florida and hauled in tractor-trailers to New York, is known as Purple Haze because it is comprised mostly of unique buds that have small purple stains in the middle.
The marijuana also contains highly elevated levels of THC, the ingredient that gets smokers high, said Bridget Brennan, the city's special narcotics prosecutor.
The ring operated largely in upper Manhattan around Post Avenue and Dyckman Street, where scores of distributors and users from the five boroughs and as far away as Connecticut, South Jersey and Long Island routinely drove to purchase the magic weed.
In recent weeks, detectives with the Manhattan North Narcotics Major Case Unit and federal authorities in Miami have busted 29 people, including diamond-studded, bling-wearing Orlando Torres, the alleged New York-based ringleader.
Torres, 26, reputedly took over the Big Apple distribution operation after his alleged predecessor, Edward Meran, a father of seven, was gunned down in Washington Heights on Jan. 11, 2005. Meran was something of a John Gotti-like presence in his community, sponsoring the Dominican Power basketball team and founding the Dyckman Invitational Basketball League for local athletes, sources said.
But cops painted a different picture of Meran, who, sources say, was known to regularly tote large sums of money while tooling around the neighborhood and who once had $85,000 in unexplained cash in his car when he was pulled over by cops for reckless driving.
"There is an assumption that marijuana dealing is benign and unsophisticated, and our view does not support that theory," Brennan said.
In fact, when a $90,000 stash of Torres' was stolen during the "burglary" of an associate's apartment, he hired a New Jersey polygraph expert to give his crew lie-detector tests to see if they betrayed him and were involved in the heist, authorities say.
"They are moving to a higher level of technology," said Brennan, referring to other more bare-knuckled methods used by thugs who demand answers while holding knifes or chainsaws to member's throats.
"I have never heard of any criminal hiring a polygrapher before," he said.
Cops say the operation has been running for the past two years, bringing into the city an estimated 1,000 pounds of pot each week.
A call to Orlando's lawyer was not returned. Orlando and the eight others arrested in New York are being held without bail pending arraignment hearings Friday.
Well here is some old news I just found out:
NEW YORK POST - N.Y. PURPLE HAZE DAZE OVER
N.Y. PURPLE HAZE DAZE OVER
By MURRAY WEISS Criminal Justice Editor
December 18, 2006 -- Cops have busted a sophisticated and violent drug operation that provided high-flying Big Apple customers with the most expensive and potent marijuana in city history: a special brand called Purple Haze that cost $560 an ounce, The Post has learned.
The power-packed weed, grown in hothouses in south Florida and hauled in tractor-trailers to New York, is known as Purple Haze because it is comprised mostly of unique buds that have small purple stains in the middle.
The marijuana also contains highly elevated levels of THC, the ingredient that gets smokers high, said Bridget Brennan, the city's special narcotics prosecutor.
The ring operated largely in upper Manhattan around Post Avenue and Dyckman Street, where scores of distributors and users from the five boroughs and as far away as Connecticut, South Jersey and Long Island routinely drove to purchase the magic weed.
In recent weeks, detectives with the Manhattan North Narcotics Major Case Unit and federal authorities in Miami have busted 29 people, including diamond-studded, bling-wearing Orlando Torres, the alleged New York-based ringleader.
Torres, 26, reputedly took over the Big Apple distribution operation after his alleged predecessor, Edward Meran, a father of seven, was gunned down in Washington Heights on Jan. 11, 2005. Meran was something of a John Gotti-like presence in his community, sponsoring the Dominican Power basketball team and founding the Dyckman Invitational Basketball League for local athletes, sources said.
But cops painted a different picture of Meran, who, sources say, was known to regularly tote large sums of money while tooling around the neighborhood and who once had $85,000 in unexplained cash in his car when he was pulled over by cops for reckless driving.
"There is an assumption that marijuana dealing is benign and unsophisticated, and our view does not support that theory," Brennan said.
In fact, when a $90,000 stash of Torres' was stolen during the "burglary" of an associate's apartment, he hired a New Jersey polygraph expert to give his crew lie-detector tests to see if they betrayed him and were involved in the heist, authorities say.
"They are moving to a higher level of technology," said Brennan, referring to other more bare-knuckled methods used by thugs who demand answers while holding knifes or chainsaws to member's throats.
"I have never heard of any criminal hiring a polygrapher before," he said.
Cops say the operation has been running for the past two years, bringing into the city an estimated 1,000 pounds of pot each week.
A call to Orlando's lawyer was not returned. Orlando and the eight others arrested in New York are being held without bail pending arraignment hearings Friday.