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NYPD Busts $10 Million Drug Ring in Greenpoint, Police Say

By Ben Fractenberg | March 11, 2016 7:06pm | Updated on March 14, 2016 8:27am
 The NYPD busted a $10 million-a-year drug ring in Greenpoint on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. 
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BROOKLYN — The NYPD busted a $10 million-a-year drug operation in Greenpoint, officials said Friday.

Police and Homeland Security investigators arrested Philip Feng, 36, and Victor Bae, 35, in Greenpoint after the two men picked up a container packed with 300 pounds of pot on Wednesday, according to the NYPD.

Undercover agents watched Feng and Bae load the container into a truck at 414 Maspeth Ave. in East Williamsburg on March 9 and then drive to 234 Java St.

Officers then arrested the two men and found the drugs in their truck.

Investigators got a search warrant the following day for the Java Street office, where they found 100 more pounds of marijuana, mushrooms, liquid PCP and liquid human growth hormones, all worth about $2.5 million.

They also recovered about $100,000 in cash and a .22 caliber revolver.

Feng and Bae, who both live in Brooklyn, were charged with criminal sale of marijuana, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia.

Both men were expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday.

There was no information on a lawyer for either man.