[NYPOST] More than a ton of cocaine headed for the Big Apple was found stashed in metal lawn rollers when authorities recently busted a trio of narcos, officials said Tuesday.Authorities said the 920 kilograms of coke represents the biggest seizure of cocaine destined for New York City in more than a decade.
"A multimillion-dollar storm of cocaine was seized before it could wreak havoc in the Northeast," DEA Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan said in a statement.
"This seizure signifies a shift in the illegal drug landscape in New York with cocaine seizures rising more than 150% in the last year."
Suspected drug pushers Jorge Aponte-Guzman, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya and Carlos Maisonet-Lopez were busted in September after Aponte-Guzman drove a rental van to a New Jersey loading dock and picked up 460 kilos of blow, prosecutors said.
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