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Several million dollars worth of fentanyl and other drugs are off the streets following a massive Drug Enforcement Agency bust in the Hudson Valley.
A joint investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Drug Enforcement Task Force (NYDETF), New Jersey State Police, and the Westchester District Attorney’s Office led to the seizure of millions of dollars worth of opiates and other narcotics, including alleged fentanyl in Mount Vernon.
Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced that in total, approximately 25,000 pills alleged to be fentanyl, many marked “M30,” and an estimated 38 kilograms of alleged narcotics including heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl were found packaged and ready for sale in an apartment in Mount Vernon.
That was unusual for a chief, yet Westchester County prosecutors decided not to pursue criminal charges.
But a city press release last week announcing Ziadie s vindication may have gone too far. New Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah on Thursday emphasized what the press release did not.
She said that prosecutors under her predecessor were not condoning Ziadie s actions, just that they couldn t prove criminal charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
But Ziadie insisted Friday he did nothing wrong, saying he worked in an understaffed command structure, for a demanding mayor who required him to report at all hours. I think I did a damn good job, he said. I wasn t trying to rip off the city.Crime was low when I was chief and the relationship was strong with the community because I was always out there.
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