-Caveat Lector- Israeli-based drug gang nabbed near WTC
By Samuel Maull, The Associated Press http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/10/25/LatestNews/LatestNews.36913.html NEW YORK (AP) - Six members of an international drug gang, including a man who refused to leave a "stash house" on the day the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed two blocks away, have been indicted on narcotics charges. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Wednesday that the Israeli-based gang mostly sold "ecstasy," a popular nightclub hallucinogen that they imported from Holland, but they also trafficked in cocaine, hashish and marijuana. The first suspect arrested was Zwi Haim Harris, 30, whom firefighters found in an apartment house at 300 Albany St., two blocks north of the Trade Center, following the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, Morgenthau said. The firefighters had gone into the apartment house about two hours after the first tower fell to make sure that it had been evacuated. Morgenthau said they found Harris acting suspiciously and turned him over to police. Asked by police what he was doing, Harris took them to a seventh-floor apartment where he said he lived. When he opened the door to the apartment, police noticed marijuana on a living room table, Morgenthau said. Police arrested Harris and sealed the apartment. After getting a search warrant for the apartment, they recovered more than 3,000 ecstasy pills, hashish, marijuana, drug paraphernalia that included scales, grinders and chemicals, as well as two guns and numerous rounds of ammunition. Assistant District Attorney Daniel Castleman, Morgenthau's chief of investigations, said the apartment's interior was covered in the gray dust and ash that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the towers fell. On Tuesday, detectives arrested another five men and searched nine locations and seven cars, Morgenthau said. He said the gang's leader, Yigal Dobakrov, 37, of Brooklyn, had 50,000 ecstasy pills worth $1.25 million. Other items police recovered included 10,000 ecstasy pills worth about $250,000, $15,000 in cash, and three guns. Morgenthau said Dobakarov is a citizen of Israel who has an arrest record there. His role was to oversee drug importation to America and the shipment of money back to Israel, Morgenthau said. The district attorney said others in the gang included: Michael Brenman, 29, of Lakewood, New Jersey, the ring's wholesale distributor in the New York metropolitan area; Allen Agureyev, 48, Brooklyn, a courier who delivered drugs to dealers and carried money that was paid for the drugs after Brenman made the deals; Lior Hajaj, 28, of Manhattan, a mid-level distributor for Brenman and a supplier to other distributors in the metropolitan area; Frank Gomez, 46, of Manhattan, Brenman's cocaine supplier whom Brenman in turn supplied with ecstasy. The six men were variously charged in a 38-count indictment with criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of guns and criminal possession drug paraphernalia. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
