Feds crack down on Washington Square Park’s brazen drug market with 19 arrests

Nearly 20 fentanyl and crack dealers busted in Washington Square Park ring

Federal authorities dismantled an open-air drug market that operated day and night for years in and around Manhattan’s Washington Square Park, arresting a network of dogged narcotics dealers at the root of a rash of fatal overdoses, officials said. Even repeated arrests were not enough to stop the crew from dealing its deadly poison, prosecutors said. Over the past five years, cops have arrested participants more than 80 times for various drug-r…

BREAKING: 19 arrested in federal crackdown on Washington Square Park’s ‘open air drug market,’ reports say

Nineteen people have been charged by federal authorities for allegedly running an open-air drug market in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park, according to reports Thursday. Federal prosecutors allege the group of 19 supplied huge quantities of fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine directly in the park throughout the year, per the New York Times and New York Post. amNewYork has yet to receive confirmation from the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Sout…

Feds crack down on Washington Square Park’s brazen drug market with 19 arrests

Nineteen people have been hit with federal charges for allegedly running a brazen, open-air drug market in Manhattan's Washington Square Park -- flooding the area with fentanyl, heroin and crack cocaine.

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POLITICS: Thank God the feds have come to clean up Washington Square Park

New York City shouldn’t need the feds to help clear Washington Square Park of the pushers who’ve turned it into an open-air drug market — but it did. With the eager cooperation of the NYPD, federal agents on Thursday nabbed 19 heavy-duty, career drug dealers with at least 80 arrests among them Per court documents, drugs dealt by the crew that calls itself WSP Enterprise led to at least two deaths last year: an 18-year-old from Aspen, Colo. who’d…

Deadly Drugs Sold in Washington Square Park and on the Web, U.S. Says

Indictments described two rings that together hawked millions of doses of heroin, fentanyl or crack cocaine in the park and on social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat. Source: New York Times The post Deadly Drugs Sold in Washington Square Park and on the Web, U.S. Says first appeared on The New Yorkian.