Suspect Arrested with Cocaine Cache
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Officers on patrol in Harlem yesterday stopped a white livery van for failing to signal while changing lanes and ended up making a major drug arrest, police said.
According to police, the officers stopped the van at 145th Street and Bradhurst Avenue at 4:40 a.m. yesterday after observing a suspicious individual with a large black duffel bag get in at 145th Street and Broadway. While searching the van, the officers found 30 kilograms of cocaine in the duffel and a loaded .40 caliber semiautomatic pistol with the serial number filed off on the floor of the van near where the suspect was sitting. The police arrested Miles Eastman, 27, of Weymouth, Mass. The three other passengers in the van, all headed to Boston, were detained for questioning.
Mr. Eastman was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a loaded and defaced firearm, police said. The street value of the cocaine found was estimated at between $750,000 and $1 million.
BOMB THREAT CALLER ARRESTED
A crank caller who phoned in a bomb threat to a 911 operator was quickly spotted by patrolling officers and arrested yesterday, police said.
According to police, Ronald Kinzer, 52, of Elwood, N.J., placed a 911 call at 8:42 a.m. from a pay phone at 90-25 161st St. in Jamaica, Queens, telling the operator that he had a bomb.
A minute later, the operator made a call to officers near the scene, describing the caller as a male who had said something about a bomb. The operator was also able to identify what pay phone the call was made from, and where the pay phone was. Officers on patrol were already at the scene, and had earlier observed the suspect making the call. The officers moved in and arrested Mr. Kinzer, police said.