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NYPD arrest 18 people including Fox producer Katie Welnhofer and Chipotle executive Mark Crumpacker in Twin takedown of East Harlem gang members and white collar cocaine customers

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0101&semi;">Katie Welnhofer&comma; 29&comma; producer on&&num;8217&semi;Mornings with Maria&&num;8217&semi; on Fox Business&comma;  arrested as part of a huge drugs bust in New York <&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0101&semi;">Chipotle executive Mark Crumpacker and <span id&equals;"ext-gen149">Roman Yoffe&comma; a tax accountant&comma;<&sol;span>among those arrested in tghe &&num;8216&semi;white collar&&num;8217&semi; portion of the bust<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0101&semi;">Drug lords Kenny &&num;8220&semi;Jay&&num;8221&semi; Hernandez&comma; 35&comma; Felix &&num;8220&semi;Jake&&num;8221&semi; Nunez&comma; 27&comma; and Oscar Almonte&comma; 29&comma; arrested in Twin takedowns that nets East Harlem gang members&comma; cocaine customers<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42404" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;katie-welnhofer1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Katie Welnhofer1" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1200" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6>Katie Welnhofer&comma; of &&num;8216&semi;Mornings with Maria&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Fox Business&comma; arrested in N&period;Y&period; drugs bust<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Drug kingpins Kenny &&num;8220&semi;Jay&&num;8221&semi; Hernandez&comma; 35&comma; Felix &&num;8220&semi;Jake&&num;8221&semi; Nunez&comma; 27&comma; and Oscar Almonte&comma; 29&comma; were charged with selling over &dollar;75&comma;000 worth of cocaine&period; The three are members of a major cocaine trafficking ring that used Duane Reade stores to conduct sales over the past year were indicted Thursday in a takedown that also included 18 &&num;8216&semi;white collar&&num;8217&semi; clients&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance&comma; the gang distributed their merchandise at several Duane Reades and CVS pharmacies&comma; as well as at delis&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In what DA Vance descibed as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This was a high-end&comma; on-demand service&comma;” the dealers charged between &dollar;200 and &dollar;300 per transaction for the premium delivery service or double the street value of high quality cocaine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-42521" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;kenny-jay-hernandez1&period;png" alt&equals;"Kenny &quot&semi;Jay&quot&semi; Hernandez1&period;png" width&equals;"674" height&equals;"844" &sol;><strong>Kenny &&num;8220&semi;Jay&&num;8221&semi; Hernandez&comma; ran the drug dealership that serviced the &&num;8216&semi;white collar&&num;8217&semi; clientele<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Among the indicted &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;key repeat customers&period;” were a Fox Business producer&comma; Chipotle executive and a Merrill Lynch employee&period;The list of indictees include Christopher Dodson&comma; 28&comma; a client associate at Merrill Lynch&comma; Austin Dodson&comma; 24&comma; an associate at real estate firm Cushman &amp&semi; Wakefield&period; Others clients of the dealers indicted are Huffington Post blogger and education professional Alexander Mallory&comma; 31&comma; Tax accountant Roman Yoffe&comma; 36&comma; Underwriting consultant Christian Jewett&comma; 31&comma; and Kyle Holmes&comma; 27&comma; of Marwood Group senior associate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42409" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;katie-welnhofer4&period;jpg" alt&equals;" Katie Welnhofer4&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6>Katie Welnhofer&comma; in regulation garb during her court appearance<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-42413" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;cvs1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"cvs1" width&equals;"808" height&equals;"808" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong>The gang used  CVS stores as a venue tosell drugs<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance on Thursday discaussed significant drug busts by NYPD at a noon press conference&period;  Dozens of people were charged in three indictments covering activities by two New York gangs&period; Prosecutors announced the outcome of the twin takedowns of the drug dealers from East Harlem gangs and their white collar cocaine clients&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42517" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;yohan-roffe1&period;png" alt&equals;"yohan roffe1&period;png" width&equals;"585" height&equals;"813" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span id&equals;"ext-gen149">Roman Yoffe&comma; 36&comma; a tax accountant&comma;<&sol;span> caught up in the drug bust&comma; he was charged with being a customer&period;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In a separate indictment&comma; 18 cocaine customers were charged&comma; including a Fox Business Network producer&comma; Katie Welnhofer&comma; 29&comma; who works on &&num;8216&semi;Mornings with Maria&&num;8217&semi; on Fox Business&comma; and and marketing executive at Chipotle&comma; Mark Crumpacker&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Welnhofer was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday morning&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Katie Welnhofer had her blond hair tied back and was wearing tan jail garb before the judge and faces two counts of possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree&comma; prosecutors said&period; She was ordered held on &dollar;15&comma;000 bail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module v">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-42314" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;mark-crumpacker3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Mark Crumpacker3&period;jpg" width&equals;"813" height&equals;"458" &sol;><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">Mark Crumpacker&comma; Chipotle chief marketing and development officer caught in the drug dragnet<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42414" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;duane&lowbar;reade1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Duane&lowbar;Reade1" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong>The gang sold their goods around the pharmacies<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Mark Crumpacker&comma; the Chief Creative and Development Officer at Chipotle&comma; was also arrested&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The separate gang charges for several defendants include murder&comma; conspiracy and other major charges that can carry dozens of years or life behind bars&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr&period; Crumpacker was was named Chipotle’s Chief Development Officer in 2013 and oversees the company’s global real estate&comma; design&comma; construction&comma; and facilities functions&period; He joined Chipotle fom Sequence&comma; a San Francisco-based branding and interactive agency&period;&comma; which he was the founder and CEO&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span id&equals;"ext-gen149"><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42309" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;randolph-holder2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Randolph Holder2" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">New York Police Officer Randolph Holder was shot and killed in October by a gang member Tyrone Howard &lpar;below&rpar;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-42310" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;tyrone-howard3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Tyrone Howard3" width&equals;"753" height&equals;"1133" &sol;>Alleged cop killer Tyrone Howard&comma; in court<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p> <img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-42522" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;christopher-dodson1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Christopher Dodson1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"800" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Christopher Dodson of Merrill Lynch -held on &dollar;30&comma;000 bond on charges of buying &dollar;7&comma;600 in cocaine<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Law enforcement sources say the bust delivered a blow to warring gangs that played a role in the fatal shooting of Holder on Oct&period; 20&comma; 2015&period; Career criminal and alleged gang member Tyrone Howard has been charged with Holder’s murder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;

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