Over 40 pounds of drugs found at stash house — next to Bronx criminal courthouse

Bronx man Dujuan Soto was indicted on drug trafficking expenses after after over 40 kilos of medication have been present in his condominium, authorities stated.

A Bronx man was indicted on trafficking expenses after legislation enforcement found greater than 40 kilos of medication stashed inside his condominium — subsequent door to the borough’s prison courthouse, authorities stated Wednesday.

Dujuan Soto, 56, was pleaded not responsible at his arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court docket Wednesday on a number of expenses, together with working as a significant trafficker, and counts of unlawful drug and gun possession. He was ordered held on $3 million bail.

Authorities stated discovered the $3 million value of medication — together with fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine — together with loaded weapons inside Soto’s house adjoining to the Bronx Household-Prison Courthouse on East 161st Road between Sheridan and Sherman Avenues.

Soto was busted March 29 after a quick investigation carried out by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and NYPD, in response to the town’s Workplace of the Particular Narcotics Prosecutor.

On the day of his arrest, officers and brokers searched his Jeep and located a US Postal Service package deal with roughly $216,500 in alleged drug cash inside a blue bag.

Soto’s condominium occurred to be subsequent to the Bronx Household-Prison Courthouse.

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Baggage of medication discovered inside Soto’s Bronx condominium by legislation enforcement officers.

Soto had been busted in March throughout an investigation carried out by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and NYPD.

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Contained in the condominium, cops got here throughout a locked closet in his bed room the place they found over 17 kilos of fentanyl and over six kilos of cocaine — which have been imprinted with a Mercedes image, authorities stated.

Investigators additionally recovered 15 kilos of methamphetamine and over 1,000 counterfeit oxycodone and alprazolam drugs alleged to comprise fentanyl packaged inside freezer luggage.

Two loaded 9mm pistols with further ammunition have been discovered beneath Soto’s mattress, authorities alleged.

Certainly one of two loaded 9mm pistols discovered with ammunition through the bust.

Authorities additionally found $107,100 in money together with a cash counter.

One other $107,100 in money, a cash counter, digital scales, a vacuum sealer and two kilo presses utilized in packaging narcotics have been additionally recovered from the condominium, officers stated.

“The quantity and number of medicine, and the a whole lot of 1000's of dollars in money and two firearms recovered, indicators that this was a totally operational unlawful drug packaging and distribution heart,” stated Particular Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan in a press release.

“It's laborious to think about a extra audacious location than a constructing adjoining to the Bronx Household-Prison Courthouse to arrange a storehouse for lethal medicine like fentanyl, methamphetamine and the counterfeit drugs which might be saturating the black market in our metropolis,” Brennan stated.