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Man With Superman-Stamped Ecstasy Pills Arrested at Chelsea Club, NYPD Says

By Maya Rajamani | February 15, 2017 3:00pm
 The Flash Factory at 229 W. 28th St., between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
The Flash Factory at 229 W. 28th St., between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
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CHELSEA — A man was arrested for carrying Ecstasy pills stamped with the Superman symbol inside a neighborhood nightclub, the NYPD said.

The 37-year-old man was at the Flash Factory, at 229 W. 28th St. between Seventh and Eighth avenues, around 11:45 p.m. on Feb. 11 when he was busted with a “large quantity” of the pills, as well as an unspecified amount of cocaine, police said.

He was arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance, the NYPD said.

Flash Factory didn’t immediately respond to request for comment Wednesday.

Other recent crimes in the 10th Precinct include:

► A Dream Downtown Hotel employee was escorting a 26-year-old man out of the venue for being disorderly around 9:03 p.m. on Feb. 11 when the man punched him in the head, police said. The employee refused medical treatment at the scene and the 26-year-old man was arrested. The hotel at 355 W. 16th St., near Ninth Avenue, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

► A 31-year-old woman had just gotten back to her home on West 23rd Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 after attending a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden when she realized her $700 iPhone was missing, police said. The woman tracked her phone and learned that it was in The Bronx. No one had been arrested in connection with the incident as of Wednesday.