Crime in the City full episode: Drug Busts

Whether it’s the crack epidemic of the 80s, the abundance of heroin in the streets, or the recent flood of fentanyl - New York has long seen its share of drug battles and busts.
From shady backroom deals to multi-million dollar smuggling rings, this special episode of Crime in the City looks at some of the big takedowns of the past few decades.
Subscribe to FOX 5 NY: kzbin.info?sub_co...
Watch FOX 5 NY Live: www.fox5ny.com/live
FOX 5 NY delivers breaking news, live events, investigations, politics, entertainment, business news and local stories from New York City and across the nation. Good Day New York with Rosanna Scotto is New York City's home for news, weather traffic, sports and entertainment news every morning.
Watch more FOX 5 NY on KZbin:
Black Entrepreneurs: • Playlist
STREET SOLDIERS with LISA EVERS: • Street Soldiers with L...
A.I. ALL IN: • Playlist
Finding Faith: • Finding Faith with Sha...
The Big Idea: • Playlist
Download the FOX 5 NY News app: www.fox5ny.com/apps
Download the FOX 5 NY Weather app: www.fox5ny.com/apps
Follow FOX 5 NY on Facebook: / fox5ny
Follow FOX 5 NY on Twitter: / fox5ny
Follow FOX 5 NY on Instagram: / fox5ny
Subscribe to the Good Day NY Morning Brief newsletter: www.fox5ny.com/email

[@swampgod8244]

Never forget those who allowed the drugs to come into the country

[@springchickena1]

yes, because the air force can't monitor their skys or the navy can't monitor their seas. it's totally not just getting into our country past our boarders because they're profiting off of drug trade!

[@Ak907Queen]

The g o v t is who brought them in, one of the main supply that came to the us was directly thru the military & the countries the troops have gone too

[@CrystalDolison]

Same game different players…

[@alking6633]

I LOVE Old New York

[@projectnerdvana2820]

Way better then now huh?😂😂😂

[@DANGMOE]

thank you to whoever at Fox 5 New York, made this happen! So cool seeing archived news pieces from different eras back to back.

[@jaycreasey]

Giuliani no matter how powerful and Rich the are we can still take all their money bye bye Giuliani😂😮😊😊😊📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸

[@RONNIEJNZN]

damn, $65,ooo a ki in '78

[@danm3195]

Yeah I thought that,surely that can't be accurate.

[@Queensfinest2023]

@@danm3195that’s what it was Now it’s like 30?

[@TOMAHAWKTONY]

​@@Queensfinest2023before it was China white now it's Afghan or synthetics from Mexico.

[@Ok.I.Pull.Up.420]

Was prob redic fire tho

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

@@TOMAHAWKTONYGive me back my Two Globes brand white fresh off the boat from Thailand.

[@domgould5113]

Heroin killed my town in the north of England in the late 80's and 90's,I was lucky and ended up in France.3 generations touched by it now....but when the young need to escape from a failing system,this is what happens.

[@EJ-74]

Heroin didn’t kill your town your government did just like here in America, Big Pharma and the governments are to blame!!!

[@Titbitist]

cant blame others for your own actions. i'd never do drugs, thats as low as u can get

[@domgould5113]

@@TitbitistYeah ok mate,but i didnt touch drugs,i escaped.Perfect people like you dont touch anything,until your caught.

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

5:00 how do they know how much heroin comes in per year unless the government is overseeing it coming in

[@scottjohnstone6204]

They have for decades, same with coke, Afghanistan produced hardly any opium until the coalition of the willing invaded then they produced 95% of the world's opium for two decades.

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

@@scottjohnstone6204 I agree

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

@@scottjohnstone6204 I know they did with coke and teaching them how to turn it into crack and flooded the black neighborhoods in the 80s in south central LA to fund the contras and that’s how Rick Ross got busted among many others and then spread it across all the major cities in the US

[@pipeline8554]

LOL thats not true, there have been isolated times black operations have involved drug syndicates and rogue intelligence groups have trafficed drugs but by no means is it overseen by the government. They can make accurate predictions through water treatment tests.

[@jamesmccullers9916]

💯💯💯💯

[@cncwizard]

That's the last time a NYU professor talked in support of the NYPD.

[@kimjohnson9745]

Really enjoy seeing the nyc era my dad grew up in. And the reason I’ll never raise a kid within 3 hours of that god forsaken shit hole

[@dnyce8224]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@projectnerdvana2820]

Amen! 🙏

[@keeper6458]

For real!

[@user-cv6yh8xg3q]

2024 they letting it in 😢

[@recklessralphfromqueens8383]

Damn, they ain’t playing with Hezakaya News…😂

[@robertsargent4600]

Seems to me it's just getting worse and worse

[@TOMAHAWKTONY]

Social engineering + Urban Planning is designed/structured to get worst. Colonization & Genocide is the objective.

[@jaygunna3503]

Wow... drugs more expensive back then than now by far

[@JoshuaDobbs30035]

We still have too little to offer this situation, I've thanked the Police department for preventing these drugs from the streets and unless we owe the drug culture we can't possibly foresee our city.

[@kenrdavis2266]

What good did any of this do? 45 years ago they made the dealers richer by increasing the value of a kilo of Heroine immediately doubling a dealers income. Here we are 45 years later and Fentanyl costs less than a dollar. Great Job

[@JPrice601]

Damn. I didn't even realize methadone was really a thing in the 70s.

[@dmitryfishbeyn1455]

How have the times changed?! Kids used to patrol for safety, now they're protesting to support HAMAS. 🤯

[@buzz5969]

Too each his or her own, you never had control on what others choose to do. This is not china.😊

[@user-bf3ip4zf7y]

Yup. And now NY lets dealers out with no bail after being caught w millions in fake oxys laced w fettnal.

[@springchickena1]

bro what psyop are we fighting today? am i gonna need the cheat sheet to understand the lingo? decipher rings in your cereal box, go eat it. cartoons are playing. @@buzz5969

[@user-so8ei2td1d]

I like this, are there more of these?

[@fox5ny]

Yes! Check out our Crime in the City playlist for more. Here's our mob special: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYW5dYRjj86Vfbcsi=8NeiWr4wQ_tnL9H4

[@erycalexander7315]

@ 9:20 dude like wtf you asking me questions for 😂@ 9:45 dude like I’d snitch on anybody 😅

[@erycalexander7315]

@@meiko_kaji I’m guessing that you’re a upstanding citizen🤣

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

And today a kilo of cocaine in nyc is less then 20,000 so what’s that tell you about the war of drugs and how it’s going

[@billharth3801]

Penny Crone was a reporter on the Howard Stern Show later in life. She was a good reporter. Sad to see Drugs are still ruining life.

[@JamakiahEckert-uh7xw]

I dont touch! No DRUGS.

[@googo151]

Inflation rate of heroine and crack.

[@kaynesovereign9372]

Did you see how well dressed the junkies were in 1978? Either they were news plants for the story or there was just a better class of criminal back then.

[@needmoreramsay]

NOW, they just hand it out for free, along with all the fixins!!

[@harveyprobz94]

Why did the cameraman point the camera at the guy’s ass that was being interviewed at 2:41? 😂

[@retiredrudebwoy7500]

To highlight that he smoked his azz off

[@Miko36019]

Back in the 78 in my building 334 Ave D 3rd st a bag of heroin is $5 nickel bag dope and $5 nickel of bag of cocaine. $10 will get you a nice speed ball for a whole day .

[@buzz5969]

I remember nickle and dime bags.😊🇺🇸🍻✌🏻

[@dnyce8224]

3rd was bananas. I used to get my hair cut at old man Willie’s ( RIP). We used to go to the paper factory too to get labels and paper. That fetty is killing the old timers on the Ave. They gotta get clean or go back to the regular D.

[@BkZ1AnD0nLy]

MULTI BILLION? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@tides234]

my theory is , that there is a tunnel to Jamaica from Washington square park . every time they do a sweep , 10 minutes later . more appear

[@mogeking56]

Prices are so high that it’s really making it hard for a poor junky to stay addicted to junk I might just run for governor if junk stays this expensive

[@chinchin3097]

One of the biggest drugs bus to date. the oil tanker. What about the JP Morgan? Transport ship that got busted in Africa was 600 tons of cocaine..

[@Bay0Wulf]

Washington Square Park … marijuana was the drug most being “pushed”. Seriously? That was a market many people went to to “shop” … no “pushing” was required.

[@projectnerdvana2820]

We use to get weed and LSD all the time back then even after that bust in the mid and late 90s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh those were the days!

[@Ejdubb]

This is the same as today. All the same characters. “All the world’s a stage…”

[@MarioCaballero-kt5zs]

Gulliani had me wearing gullianeese

[@Dirty2Clean1980]

When people say people used to not snitch. None of these big busts would've happened without someone twlling.

[@TOMAHAWKTONY]

Don't negate the fact of embedded operatives. Leverage is a tool. All of these individuals & organizations were replaced hence expendable.

[@1186wolf]

I find it funny when they say the drug dealer has to pay fines How are they going to pay fines when they are in jail and Not working Where are the Fine payment come from?

[@MarioCaballero-kt5zs]

Hard fuckin free labor jail is slavery my friend but there's folks dat are sick they need to b there and stay there

[@skycloud4802]

They can pay it back in installments when they get out.

[@kimberlyW.781]

That’s why they say don’t let your left hand let your right hand know what you doing true saying!!

[@lisalee2885]

Get it all out of here....Thanks Law enforcement

[@je9212]

Great narrative to make us forget about the present.🤥🤔🤔🤔

[@TOMAHAWKTONY]

Can you identify the differences between then & now👈🤔

[@je9212]

@@TOMAHAWKTONY back then was to stop organize crime with the Rico law and no bail reform law!!!!.and Rockefeller law was the difference and a great Mayor in Rudy Giuliani and governor Pataki.thats the difference my friend 😁

[@TOMAHAWKTONY]

@@je9212 absolutely. I asked being something is seriously missing now. The laws are obviously in place. However priorities have been displaced.

[@je9212]

@@TOMAHAWKTONY the Bail reform law needs to be changed immediately...

[@astargmoneynevaendz999]

Awsome video 📸📸📸

[@jdawgfytb]

6:54 that weed is 💩

[@vel6110]

Thats all we had back then😢

[@joefer5360]

@@vel6110 Dear God, it looks like lawn trimmings.

[@jdawgfytb]

😂

[@marysuckafreechic9006]

Unsprayed you consider to be 💩. What y’all smoke now is all sprayed up. 💩🪬

[@projectnerdvana2820]

Yup. That's all we had back then unfortunately. There was nothing modified to choose from like now. Sometimes we would get nice good green shit that Colombian dealers use to sell but who knows where it use to come from.

[@user-hp4vi7zd9g]

“Hundreds of thousands of dollars” shows about $3,000 in 1’s 😑

[@mathiaskanuck6759]

5:57 Good ol Rudolph has been sweating like that his whole life. Ill never forget when his Tan oil started dripping down the side of his face

[@mikusoxlongius]

I'll never forget the video of Ruby Freeman dragging out 2 boxes of ballots hidden under the table. The poll watchers had been sent home for a bogus "water leak" when she resumed counting. Running some batches through more than once. Banana Republic...

[@rudykisely3750]

Ah, stuff out of the WNEW archives. Hand it all over to the Museum

[@DaveSCameron]

And we still behave stupidly

[@raymaharaj4502]

@2:29 who's that? Richard Pryor?????? Lmfao

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

LES candy shop should have been on here.

[@jtrader9946]

now go to the dispensaries, weed labs and farmers and alcohol resellers and we have a fair game

[@DaveSCameron]

9:04 and what?

[@CoreyKendrick-bo7si]

😂the police so aint worth shit that man had to read off paper on live news...😂 dey wasnt ready😂😂

[@SNOwyte]

Damn rudy looks so young

[@ShadrackPanda]

😢😢😢

[@bonafidehustler-entreprene8781]

damn that marijuana looks terrible 😂. borderline tobacco with seeds

[@Thomas-ry8xq]

Legalize drugs.

[@skycloud4802]

And risk another Portland?

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

What about the daycares ?

[@vincesarmento4854]

Corrupt politicians!

[@smfbankrollshotty47]

It’s crazy hearing them call marijuana a drug and illegal back then it seems so stupid people were going to jail for selling weed back then since it’s so legalized now it’s recreationally legal even medically used for a lot of treatments it’s crazy how people even got third strikes and pretty much life bids or close too it for selling weed and now even the state taxes it SMH

[@SNOwyte]

Giuliani tried to blind me

[@mrhappy4521]

More maggot than apple anymore

[@la7era1u54]

Best pizza in New York!!!

[@user-gk4xz3pb8j]

If you just legalize cocaine all this wouldn't be necessary there not getting high off cocaine their getting high off easy peasy wealth and power

[@joefer5360]

Grasping for stories eh FOX?

[@eliasarechiga1927]

Since 1978 to 2024, What’s changed?

[@SNOwyte]

Yall aint got shit on us in connecticut mane

[@DB-fo4go]

No more drug bust these day's????

[@johndoe-cb1id]

lol dry up the war on drugs in full effect

[@danieldeason5939]

Hey look Rudy Giuliani when he wasn’t brainwashed and bankrupt

[@justinhorn2864]

O yes back when they locked up criminals hard to believe that was a thing. Now days you can't hurt the criminals feelings

[@LovelyCrescentMoon-bk9qr]

Actually they didn’t I was busted in NY at this time, they let us go. Several times, thank god! Lol

[@philmikehunt9664]

Legalize cannabis federally

[@buzz5969]

Its been around so long I dont know anyone who cares, smokeit if ya got it, and we def got it!✌🏻🇺🇸🍻

[@RMA8159]

Lisa Evers…

[@user-wn2mp5sl9d]

Is vice kartel free

[@victorperez1734]

Legalize all drugs Problem solved When marijuana became legal A lot of ppl I know quit

[@donnyh3731]

Dumb.. look at Portland OR… ur tripping

[@projectnerdvana2820]

Don't compare weed with all that other garage! Weed is a natural non altered remedy plant for many ailments.

[@Thomas-ry8xq]

End the war on drugs.

[@marlon8095]

No.

[@kuangtien3980]

Learn from history.....prohibition doesn't work ,....it creates an illegal black market .🤔

[@user-ys2wf7vz9m]

🔥🌊🐬💦💧 FIRE 🔥 WATER 🐬 THROWBACK SHT!

[@seanmetro3496]

GUILIANI TIME 3.0!!!

[@1takemedia238]

Talk about a Fall from grace Rest in peace 🕊️ Rudolph Guilaini😂📈⌚💯🔙

[@DjTriniyankee]

Lol he still breathing

[@moniho6907]

Dang white people lived in the bronx?

[@kennethlugo5916]

It never ends.... unfortunately

[@DionOkdie-kp9gy]

#HOMELANDSECURITYSUX

[@Dbenzsanz]

Drugs should be made legal as it was with boot legging .

[@Titbitist]

people cant handle narcotics as you can see

[@YearRoundEggnogNogger]

Anyone noticed a pattern? You bust one operation and another bigger one takes its place. When are we as a society going to wake up and regulate the distribution of hard drugs just like alcohol and cigarettes? Thats the only way to actually help people, and im a former trafficker saying that!

[@DaveSCameron]

@LEAP @ukleap