Cops: NYC drug kingpin caught after nearly two years on run
Photo credit: NYSP | Eury Rodriguez, 33 of Queens, was charged after a yearlong investigation that uncovered his role in a major heroin operation in the Bronx and nearly two years on the run from police, authorities said. (Feb. 4, 2013)
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A Queens man who sent heroin from the Bronx to western New York and spent nearly two years on the run was charged Monday under the Drug Kingpin law after he had previously moved more than 151/2 pounds of the drug, worth an estimated street value of $3.5 million, State Police said.
Eury Rodriguez, 33, was among 15 individuals named in a 51-count indictment in Erie County in March 2011 -- after...
