Undercover sting in Washington Square Park nabs 9 mushroom, cocaine pushers after Post report on brazen open-air drug market
On Wednesday, prosecutors arrested nine suspected drug dealers for allegedly selling psychedelic mushrooms and crack cocaine to NYPD officers in an undercover operation at a brazen open-air market in Washington Square Park. announced that it had been done. The suspects were arrested in various locations over the past six weeks and are suspected of making […]
Philadelphia City Council considers curfew on businesses in this open-air drug market
Warning: This story contains graphic images. With addiction and crime so rampant in the Philadelphia area, a new bill would impose a curfew on some stores in Kensington's open-air drug market. City Councilman Quesi Lozada introduced a bill Thursday that would require some businesses and restaurants in certain areas of the Kensington neighborhood, including the […]
Could Philly’s new Dem mayor be the one to clean up this infamous open-air drug market?
In one of her first acts after taking office, Philadelphia's first female mayor declared a state of security emergency to stem the rampant crime and excessive drug addiction plaguing her city's neighborhoods. “I think this is a step in the right direction,” Frank Rodriguez, a recovering heroin addict and former drug dealer in Philadelphia's Kensington […]