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Funk in the trunk: Officials say guys tried to swap suitcases full of pot

Funk in the trunk: Officials say guys tried to swap suitcases full of pot
NYPD

Police busted two guys who allegedly exchanged briefcases full of pot in broad daylight on the corner of 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue — just blocks from the Bay Ridge apartment building where they both live — on Jan. 27.

Keen-eyed cops recovered 51 pounds of wacky tobacky after spying the suspicious hand-off, officials said. Four plainclothes officers saw the pair — who apparently live at the same 90th Street address — park separate vehicles at the corner around 11:15 am, swap suitcases, and drive away. Police pulled them over, and both cars reeked of reefer, officials said.

One suspect, a 31-year-old man, admitted that the briefcases were stuffed with bud, and police found the pair packed 20 pounds of pot — the weight of roughly four red bricks — in each, according to law enforcement sources. Cops also found cocaine in one car’s center console, officials said.

The same man admitted there was even more dope at a W. 28th Street apartment, so investigators got a warrant and scored 11 more pounds of grass, two scales, and a notebook containing records of cash transactions, a police report states.

Investigators charged both men with criminal possession of marijuana and one with possession of a controlled substance.

Reach reporter Dennis Lynch at (718) 260–2508 or e-mail him at dlynch@cnglocal.com.