The state attorney general’s Organized Crime Task Force has busted up a violent drug-running gang from Albany following a seven-month investigation.
Forty-one people affiliated with the "Bloods" are charged with corruption and drug dealing for allegedly peddling thousands of dollars worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana on the streets of the state’s capital, said a spokesman with the attorney general’s office.
The gangsters and their associates apparently used gangland connections to have drugs shipped from Brooklyn and Long Island to the Albany area for distribution.
Using wiretaps, investigators were able to listen in on several violent crimes being planned — including assaults, robberies and gun deals, the spokesman said.
Cops were able to stop these crimes without jeopardizing the operation, he added.
During raids, authorities — including Albany police, state police and US marshals — seized nine guns, thousands in cash and tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs, according to the spokesman.
The defendants are currently being arraigned in an Albany court.
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