Police busted two guys who allegedly exchanged briefcases full of pot in broad daylight on the corner of 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue — just blocks from the Bay Ridge apartment building where they both live — on Jan. 27.
Keen-eyed cops recovered 51 pounds of wacky tobacky after spying the suspicious hand-off, officials said. Four plainclothes officers saw the pair — who apparently live at the same 90th Street address — park separate vehicles at the corner around 11:15 am, swap suitcases, and drive away. Police pulled them over, and both cars reeked of reefer, officials said.
One suspect, a 31-year-old man, admitted that the briefcases were stuffed with bud, and police found the pair packed 20 pounds of pot — the weight of roughly four red bricks — in each, according to law enforcement sources. Cops also found cocaine in one car’s center console, officials said.
The same man admitted there was even more dope at a W. 28th Street apartment, so investigators got a warrant and scored 11 more pounds of grass, two scales, and a notebook containing records of cash transactions, a police report states.
Investigators charged both men with criminal possession of marijuana and one with possession of a controlled substance.
