More than two dozen people were arrested last week as narcotics cops converged on the Breukelen Houses.
Police said that the arrests marked the end of a sweeping drug investigation throughout the complex that began in March.
Cops stormed the houses at 6 a.m. July 16, where they executed 14 search warrants based on undercover drug buys that took place weeks earlier.
Officials said that 28 people were taken into custody in total without incident. Well over half of them were over 40.
Police said that those charged included a 60-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman, although it’s believed that they were the drug dealer’s relatives who happened to be home when police executed their warrants. They were arrested when drugs were found in the apartment.
At least two people, 39-year-old Juan Gonzalez and 43-year-old Raul Muniz, were charged with conspiracy for allegedly dealing drugs.
As they executed their search warrants, investigators recovered one and a half kilos of cocaine, eight grams of heroin, some marijuana and pills of Ecstasy, Xanax and Klonopin. Drug paraphernalia, several thousand dollars and a defaced firearm were also recovered, officials said.
The Breukelen Houses has 30 buildings that take up 64.98 acres of land between East 103rd Street and Stanley Avenue and Flatlands and Williams avenues. Just over 4,000 live in the complex.
While drugs were dealt out of several apartments, the activities of those arrested were never violent, said a police source, who noted that so far this year there has only been one shooting in and around the Breukelen Houses.
That shooting, the source said, had nothing to do with the drug trade.