BROOKLYN - Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the indictment of 11 people involved in a Clinton Hill drug ring that sold crack cocaine and marijuana on the street, in a residential apartment building and out of several local businesses, in the vicinity of Putnam and Grand Avenues.

 “These drug dealers thought they could take over the neighborhood, selling poison on the street and in the hallways of an apartment building, sometimes in view of school children”, District Attorney Hynes said. “Thanks to the work of the NYPD and the prosecutors in my Major Narcotics Bureau, these defendants will not be dealing anything for a long time.”

The joint investigation, with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD’s Brooklyn Narcotics Division, stems from complaints from community members in the neighborhood. Undercover officers infiltrated the operation and made 18 purchases of crack cocaine, over several months.

Dealers sold drugs on the street, in an apartment building on the corner of Putnam and Grand Avenues and used a barbershop and two t-shirt shops to store and sell drugs. When search warrants were executed, on October 29, officers recovered 75 grams of crack, worth $10,000 retail, from the barber shop, as well as two guns and almost two pounds of marijuana in the two t-shirt stores. A third gun was recovered from the home of the manager of one of the stores.

Eleven defendants are named in four indictments. The top charges against them include Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a Class-B Felony, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a Class-C Violent Felony. Several defendants are also charged with Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree, a Class-E Felony.