New York Daily News

Deadly drug ring targeted in cop raids

- John Annese

A MASSIVE drug ring linked to two overdose deaths was smashed in Brooklyn, prosecutor­s said Wednesday.

The narcotics mill was run out of a cluttered Brooklyn apartment nicknamed the “Palace,” authoritie­s said.

Business was so profitable that one of the ringleader­s lived in a real palace — a two-bedroom luxury apartment in Long Island City, with a Lamborghin­i parked in a garage next door.

Cops and prosecutor­s shut down the ring Tuesday night, seizing 10 kilos of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs, $600,000 cash, guns — and the cherry-red sports car.

Most of the cash was stashed in the Long Island City apartment of Dionne (Slay) Sharrow, 35, according to city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan.

When police searched the “Palace” — the stash house in the Shore Haven Apartments on 20th Lane in Bath Beach, they found drugs in an oven, in hidden compartmen­ts in a couch, and on a counter.

Police also busted Pablo (Cito) Vallecillo, 39, Antonio Lopez, 40, and Jason Keating, 41. All four face drug-dealing and conspiracy charges.

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