New York City police on Friday said they seized 580 pounds of cocaine worth $10 million, the largest cocaine seizure in the city in decades. File Photo by Justin Lane/EPA-EFE
Aug. 28 (UPI) -- New York City police on Friday said they seized 580 pounds of cocaine worth $10 million, the largest cocaine seizure in the city in decades.
Nelson Salcedo, 35 of New Jersey, was arrested while moving several boxes hiding cocaine from a self-storage facility in Queens.
"This was a massive shipment of narcotics, tied to an interstate trafficking network with connections across the country, including in New York and New Jersey," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the New York Post.
"And because of the work of the investigators standing with me today, those drugs will never make it into the streets of New York City."
