The Nation - News from Aug. 22, 1986
Police busted a multimillion-dollar cocaine ring, seized 10 kilos of the drug worth an estimated $7 million and arrested three people, including a Colombian national, at a New York hotel. The three people, two men and a woman, were nabbed after they sold 10 kilos of pure cocaine to an undercover police officer in a room at the Hotel Morgan in Manhattan, said Lt. Joseph Grillo of the Bronx Narcotics Squad. The cocaine was being sold for $275,000. The street value of the 10 kilos was $7 million, Grillo said.
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