{"id":1029987,"date":"2026-08-28T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029987\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:37:12","slug":"580-pounds-of-cocaine-seized-at-queens-storage-facility-in-largest-drug-bust-in-a-decade-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1029987\/","title":{"rendered":"580 pounds of cocaine seized at Queens storage facility in &#8216;largest&#8217; drug bust in a decade: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212;<\/strong> More than 580 pounds of cocaine were seized outside a self-storage facility in Long Island City this week, the NYPD said Friday, calling it the department&#8217;s largest cocaine bust in at least a decade.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The cocaine had a street value of more than $10 million, according to police, who said the bust stemmed from months of investigation with the DEA into a major trafficking network in New York and New Jersey linked back to a cartel.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation took a major turn on Wednesday, when investigators followed a silver Nissan van from West 38th Street in Midtown to a storage facility at Northern Boulevard and 36th Avenue in Queens, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the van&#8217;s driver went in and out of the storage facility and loaded boxes into the van. When investigators stopped him, there were allegedly 19 boxes in and outside the van. A search warrant ultimately revealed about 230 brick-shaped packages of cocaine within those boxes, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have been arrested, including the van&#8217;s alleged driver, Nelson Salcedo, 35, of Englewood, New Jersey, who was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>The cocaine was allegedly destined for distribution in Manhattan and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the bust &#8220;historic&#8221; and \u201cthe NYPD\u2019s largest cocaine seizure in at least a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a massive shipment of narcotics tied to a interstate trafficking network with connections across the country, including in New York and New Jersey,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; More than 580 pounds of cocaine were seized outside a self-storage facility in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1029988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,79726,21609,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1029987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-cocaine","tag-long-island-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117174589970610442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}