Brothers Caught Using Uber Drivers To Move Drugs
Ingenuity and drug dealers has always gone hand in hand.
Two brother from the Bronx were arrested after police figured out their elaborate scam that used Uber vehicles as ways to deliver drugs and money with limited suspicion from police. The brothers were making tens of thousands of dollars before being caught.
Siblings Alfredo Tejada-Almonte, 34, and Oscar Tejada, 31, allegedly used the drivers to distribute cocaine and heroin to more than 100 customers in the Bronx and upper Manhattan.The dealers used the Uber cars to avoid looking suspicious as they waited outside buildings for the users to pick up their drug, officials said.“People would call the two brothers and they would use the Uber cars to drop off the drugs,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.“I'd be careful with the word legitimate (but) they were Uber drivers. They were in the employ of Uber.”Officers and federal agents seized a kilo of cocaine, five vehicles, $22,786 in cash and a gun.On April 27, Detectives Nelson Pabon and James Baez spotted two members of the ring in a Honda Accord in the midst of moving a bag with eight ounces of cocaine into a building on Grand Concourse.Pabon stopped one of the dealers, who turned out to be Toribio, arrested him and seized the drugs. That bust led to the arrests of the others. -(NY Daily News)