Brooklyn Heroin Dealers Earned $50K A Week, Prosecutors Say​

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- Police busted a drug dealing crew that raked in $50,000-a-week delivering heroin, cocaine and prescription meds in South Brooklyn, prosecutors announced.

William “Blanco” Barrous, 27, and Emmanuel Batista, 28, are charged with operating as major traffickers under the state's drug kingpin statute, running a 14-member crew that delivered millions of dollars worth of drugs across Brooklyn between 2017 and 2018, according to a joint statement from the Brooklyn and Queens district attorneys and the New York City special narcotics prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan.

Barrous and Batista were arrested in December after the NYPD's Brooklyn South narcotics team witnessed more than 50 drug sales during an investigation that spanned from Feb. 10, 2017 to Nov. 30, 2018, said prosecutors.

Prosecutors believe Batista oversaw daily operations, dispatching runners — primarily to Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Mill Basin — who delivered drugs and brought in up to $8,000 a day.

The delivery workers operated in 12-hour shifts, selling heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and prescriptions pills seven days a week between 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., said prosecutors.

Police raided the leaders' Queens homes on Dec. 12, according to prosecutors.

Investigators found two loaded guns, 15 pounds of heroin and cocaine worth millions of dollars, $796,000 in cash, which was stuffed in shoe boxes and bags, during a raid of Barrous' Queens home at 71-59 160th St. on Dec. 12, said prosecutors

Police also seized heroin and cocaine, almost $7,500 in cash, jewelry, designer handbags and a Land Rover during a raid of Batista's Flushing home at 131-01 4oth Road, prosecutors said.

Fourteen suspects — Barrous, Batista, Frangel Tejada, 31, Alejandro Contreras, 22, Johnny Mercado, 24, Alberto Henriquez, 22, Yeurys Urena, 23, Joshua Soto, 20, Nelson Ramirez, 23, Samuel Medrano, 23, Cesar Medina, 23, Carlos Miguel Acevedo, 22, Gregory Lind, 25, and 19-year-old Alexander Carrion — were named on the 73-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy and criminal sale of a controlled substance, prosecutors said.

Barrous is slated to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday afternoon, Batista and nine others are scheduled for arraignment on Jan. 31, and two others were arraigned last week, said prosecutors.

Photos courtesy of the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor's office