Epsom Salt Update: Pound Of Crystal Meth Found By Cops At NYC Hotel Housing Migrants

[Sugar Cookie]

Everyone in the motel needs their ass probed to see who's ass this meth was. Everyone then should be taken right back to the border and told to go back from where they came, that includes women, children and what are laughingly considered men.

A pound of crystal meth was recovered by police in a room at a Staten Island hotel that has been converted into emergency housing for migrants, according to sources.

The drugs, which were stuffed inside a black bag, were first spotted by a worker at the Ramada Inn on North Gannon Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post.

An asylum seeker had resided in the room where the meth was located, sources said, but no one was there at the time of the discovery.

Police are investigating how the drugs ended up at the hotel and who brought them there.

The hotel was turned into a 35-unit shelter to house incoming migrants on May 4, according to local politicians who decried the transformation.

“So long as the City is forced to continue spending taxpayer dollars to harbor illegal immigrants while cutting services for our own citizens in need, there is no light at the end of the tunnel,” Borough President Vito Fossella and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said in a joint statement at the time.

“It currently costs taxpayers $93,000 for each family housed in these units, which is more than many Staten Islanders make in one year,” the statement said.

Exclusive | Pound of crystal meth found by cops at NYC hotel housing migrants: sources

The hotel was turned into a 35-unit shelter to house incoming migrants on May 4, according to local pols.

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[Metalfan]

They have to stay awake,collecting free shit is exhausting!

 

[DeeDee]

I wonder how big 1 pound of meth is. I'm one of those people who appreciates a size example comparison when it's drugs I've never seen in person before. Is it an xl Ziploc bag? Shoe box size? Bigger? 1 pound of feathers is going to be a much larger pile than 1 pound of rocks.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Retraction Update:

A pound of white powder found at a migrant shelter on Staten Island has turned out to be nothing more than Epsom salt, city officials confirmed late Friday.

The disclosure came hours after law enforcement sources initially identified the substance as methamphetamine, igniting a new round of recriminations over shelter oversight and leading local politicians already hostile to the facility to demand its closure.

“The safety and well-being of those in the city’s care are our top priorities,” said City Hall spokesman Charles Lutvak in a statement. “NYPD responded immediately to this location and conducted testing on the substance, which was determined to be Epsom salt.”

The sources told The Post initially that the white powder was initially found in a black bag at the infamous Ramada Inn on North Gannon Avenue late Wednesday by a hotel employee.

“Whether the alleged substance is methamphetamine or not, the fact still remains that security at migrant shelters is inadequate both for the safety of the people staying at the migrant shelters and for the surrounding neighborhoods,” said Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) in a statement released after the dramatic turn of events.

Tannousis demanded that city officials shut down all of the nearly 200 migrant shelters that have been set up in the middle of residential areas across the five boroughs.

“The security precautions taken at these migrant shelters are either close to non-existent or are being carried out by unqualified individuals,” the GOP lawmaker said.

The Ramada Inn was turned into a 35-unit migrant shelter in May as city officials grappled with the relentless influx of asylum seekers pouring into the Big Apple — much to the ire of residents and local pols.

Powder found at Staten Island migrant shelter found to be Epsom salt — after initially being thought to be meth: officials

The drugs, which are currently being tested by cops, were found stashed in a black bag at the Ramada Inn late Wednesday night by a hotel employee, police sources told The Post.

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