{"id":518845,"date":"2010-04-06T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004218"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:01:47","slug":"brooklyn-police-close-6-stores-on-the-same-street-for-selling-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518845","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Police Close 6 Stores On The Same Street For Selling Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/040610-005-brooklyn-police-on-myfoxny-thumb-280x196-39004.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Up until today, if you lived near a certain street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and wanted some pot, you just had to go to the nearby variety store. Or the music store. Or the take-out restaurants. MyFox New York says police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/dpp\/news\/local_news\/brooklyn\/nypd-busts-alleged-drug-sellers-at-retail-stores-20100406\">&#8220;made a sweep of the neighborhood&#8221;<\/a> today and shut down six businesses for selling drugs either in the back or right alongside the regular merchandise. They also arrested 8 people, including a few store owners and employees, and are planning more arrests. Video below.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"video\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" data=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=6494\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=6494\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"&#038;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&#038;embed=true&#038;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewnyw%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fregion%5F6%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3Dnypd%2Dbusts%2Dalleged%2Ddrug%2Dsellers%2Dat%2Dretail%2Dstores%2D20100406%3Bloc%3Dsite%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D641448208130896100%3Frand%3D0%2E6817412301898003&#038;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxny%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D132092439&#038;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxny%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2010%2F04%2F06%2F20100406drugbusts%5Ftmb0000%5F20100406173055%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&#038;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxny%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%5Fnews%2Fbrooklyn%2Fnypd%2Dbusts%2Dalleged%2Ddrug%2Dsellers%2Dat%2Dretail%2Dstores%2D20100406\" name=\"FlashVars\"\/><param value=\"all\" name=\"allowNetworking\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/dpp\/news\/local_news\/brooklyn\/nypd-busts-alleged-drug-sellers-at-retail-stores-20100406\">&#8220;NYPD Busts Alleged Drug Sellers at Retail Stores&#8221;<\/a> [MyFoxNY]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until today, if you lived near a certain street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and wanted some pot, you just had to go to the nearby variety store. Or the music store. Or the take-out restaurants. MyFox New York says police &#8220;made a sweep of the neighborhood&#8221; today and shut down six businesses for selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}