Police say that one man arrested last week on felony heroin sale and possession charges, 24-year-old Shalimar "Swag" Cason of Brooklyn, is a member of the Crips gang. In the recent sweep, Aldrich was charged with several cocaine-related offenses.Įight of the arrests were previously announced in a press release issued on Saturday.
One of those arrested, Burton Aldrich, is an advocate for medical marijuana who appeared in a 2008 television spot for the Marijuana Policy Project. Five more suspects are yet to be taken into custody and have not been named, and police say further arrests are expected. The charges in the arrests range from various degrees of criminal sale and possession to conspiracy and criminal facilitation charges. According to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, undercover officers made over 100 drug buys during the investigation, and recovered more than 1,000 bags of heroin, several ounces of cocaine, and over 500 diverted pharmaceuticals.Ī photo gallery of those arrested in the sweep shows 34 suspects: male and female, young and old, of diverse races and from both rural and urban areas.
OPERATION SPRING CLEANING DRUG BUST CRACK
The investigation ranged across the county, and targeted sales of multiple types of drugs: heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, black-market pharmaceuticals and marijuana. Police believe many of the drugs targeted in the sweep were coming into Ulster County from the New York City area, said Ulster County Lieutenant Ed Brewster, according to the Daily Freeman, which sent several reporters to cover the event live with online video clips. The Sheriff's Office and other URGENT members held a press conference at the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center in Kingston at noon to discuss the arrests. Over three dozen arrests were announced with great fanfare on Wednesday by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, the result of a seven-month-long undercover investigation into drug sales by the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) dubbed "Operation Spring Cleaning." Above: Images from a photo gallery of arrests made during the recent URGENT investigation "Operation Spring Cleaning," posted on the Ulster County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page.
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