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Queens DA: LIE turned into 'heroin highway'

Originally published: January 13, 2012 9:18 AM
Updated: January 13, 2012 10:17 PM
By ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO  anthony.destefano@newsday.com

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and Inspector Michael

Photo credit: John Roca | Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and Inspector Michael Bryan, of Massapequa and the NYPD, with assault guns money and drugs ceased as they addressed media at Queens county courthouse. (Jan. 13, 2012)

The Long Island Expressway served as the "Heroin Highway" for scores of well-heeled Suffolk and Nassau residents who traveled it to New York City to buy drugs, officials said Friday.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, at a news conference announcing that police had broken up a narcotics ring, said that 96 heroin users from Suffolk County and 15 from Nassau County were arrested over the...

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