A traffic stop in New York has led to a potential synthetic marijuana ring bust, as a group of people have been arrested for dealing K2, a synthetic marijuana also known as "spice," in the Bronx.
Following a traffic stop in 2014, police discovered $644,338 in cash on the person of Abdullah Deiban, which led to his arrest.After searching his Queens home that contained more than $150,000 in additional cash, DEA Agents said they read Deiban his Miranda rights, but that he told them the greater amount of his money came from the sale of synthetic narcotics that were bound for a store in the Bronx.
Agents also said Deiban said the smaller sum of money resulted from Bronx and Queens stores that sell his K2, according to the Daily Beast.
Lats week, in an involved incident, police discovered a Bronx warehouse that had 2 million packets of spice, worth up to $10 million dollars on the street.The search took place at 2424 Poplar Street in the East Bronx, according to pix 11.
A big problem police have with containing this product is that it is very easily accessible.
Unlike real marijuana, synthetic pot is often found in bodegas and kiosks, "where they sell milk and candy," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, according to The Daily Beast. It is commonly sold in gas stations, and is very difficult to regulate.
The group used chemicals from China to manufacture the synthetic, according to NY Daily News. Debian gave permission to the DEA to search his house and they found $150,935 of packaged spice.
"When DEA agents questioned Deiban about numerous keys he had on his person, he stated that some of the keys belonged to a warehouse in which he stored his synthetic marijuana, but he was not willing to give the DEA agents the address and would no longer cooperate unless the DEA agents could promise that he would not go to jail," a formal complaint for Deiban's siezed $600,000 alleged.
