New York Daily News

Qns. man in drug, pimp bust

- BY GRAHAM RAYMAN With Shayna Jacobs

A Queens pimp jumped out a window in a botched attempt to to escape cops arresting him for pushing drugs and peddling flesh, authoritie­s said Friday.

A shirtless Carlos Medina Palomino threw himself out a first floor window of one of his alleged brothels on 45th Ave. near Junction Blvd. in Corona on Thursday when cops and federal agents swooped in to arrest him, prosecutor­s said.

“The defendant is charged with traffickin­g in misery in multiple ways: selling lethal drugs, misreprese­nting their actual contents and offering sexual services for sale from women he claimed to have ‘extradited,’ ” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said.

Medina Palomino allegedly offered an undercover cop a compliment­ary romp with one of the women he claimed he “trafficked” from Colombia to Queens.

Women are not the only thing he procured from Colombia. Medina Palomino told the undercover officer that he flew to the South American country to arrange shipments of drugs to the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico, authoritie­s said.

Three times between Feb. 27 and April 2, Medina Palomino sold 250 grams of cocaine laced with fentanyl worth $9,800 at a second brothel on 58th St. near Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside.

Cops found 350 grams of drugs and $6,000 in cash when they raided his Jackson Heights apartment and the two alleged brothels.

“This man is alleged to have promoted a lifestyle of sex and drugs, using the backdrop of multiple brothels to sell highly addictive drugs, including drugs laced with fentanyl,” said Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security New York.

Medina Palomino was charged with selling drugs and promoting prostituti­on. He was remanded after his arraignmen­t in Manhattan Supreme Court Friday.

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