NYC drug ring peddled pills shaped like Trump, Bitcoin, Mickey Mouse: prosecutors

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NYC drug ring peddled pills shaped like Trump, Bitcoin, Mickey Mouse: prosecutors
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Nine people, including four members of the same family, were pressing and peddling fake Oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, the city’s special narcotics prosecutor said.

–were made into nearly a dozen recognizable shapes that included dominoes, spades, Iron Man, Bitcoin, Legos and green and yellow silhouettes of the 76-year-old former president.

A drug ring was peddling pills laced with fentanyl that were shaped like former President Donald Trump, cops said.“Fentanyl and methamphetamine are being pressed into pills by local dealers like the Cabrera brothers, as well as the cartels in Mexico,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Frank Tarantino said in a statement.

Investigators said the crew’s operation ran from August 2019 through last month, with Edwin and Elvis Cabrera as the initial targets of the joint local, state and federal probe.

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