MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A pair of cocaine and marijuana dealers who handed out "Coca Cola" and "Purple Rain: Up in Smoke" business cards to prospective clients pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.
Drug dealers Thomas Zenon, 41, and Miguel Guzman, 43, each pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance. They are both expected to be sentenced to four years in prison plus three years probation when they are sentenced on Aug. 22.
The pair distributed calling cards in the East Village, the Lower East Side and TriBeCa by paper-clipping them to the Village Voice and other free newspapers, narcotics prosecutors said.
Cards were recovered in a New York University dorm on 10th Street and Third Avenue and a TriBeCa high-rise apartment.
The cards advertising cocaine said "Coca Cola" with a phone number and the words "7 day a week, Still 3 a.m." Another said "Purple Rain: Up in Smoke," and was apparently advertising a pot selling business.
Zenon and Guzman, both of Washington Heights, were held on $1 million bail each at their arraignment in January.
They were arrested after undercover police bought $4,250 in drugs from them between October 2010 and January 2011, officials said. Guzman was apprehended on his way to a delivery on the Upper West Side, while Zenon was arrested inside a Washington Heights restaurant.
