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The arrests of the guards came as part of a sweeping indictment of 45 members and associates of the Bedford-Stuyvesant-based “Bully Gang,” which ran a drug trafficking operation that shipped heroin, fentanyl and crack between Maine and New York on top of the Rikers Island scheme, according to prosecutors.
UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 3:46 pm ET Replies(3) A third round of arrests was unveiled Thursday in an elaborate drug ring accused of smuggling drug-soaked comic books into Rikers Island. (Shutterstock / Leonard Zhukovsky) BROOKLYN, NY — A current and former New York City corrections officer are among the latest associates arrested from an elaborate Brooklyn-based drug ring that spanned four states and included smuggling narcotics into Rikers Island. Federal officials unveiled a third round of arrests Thursday in their takedown of the Bully Gang, a street gang that trafficked crack cocaine...