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Feds crack down on NYC’s Washington Sq. Park drug market with 19 arrests

dramabreakBy dramabreakOctober 30, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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Nineteen individuals have been hit with federal costs for allegedly working a brazen, open air drug market in Manhattan’s Washington Sq. Park — flooding the common haven with fentanyl, heroin and crack cocaine.

The medicine dealt by the alleged profession sellers led to 2 deaths final 12 months alone — together with an 18-year-old from Aspen, Colorado who had solely simply graduated highschool and a 43-year-old homeless individual who’d been residing within the park, in accordance with an indictment unsealed Thursday.

“Along with these deaths, the defendants’ drug dealing has additionally brought about quite a few different overdoses that created a considerable threat of dying and brought about different accidents,” courtroom papers state.

NYPD officers arresting a person on drug costs in Washington Sq. Park on Oct. 10, 2025. Helayne Seidman
The once-peaceful park has been inundated with drug sellers and addicts. Stephen Yang for the New York Submit

“The defendants are conscious that their medicine trigger overdoses, together with in and across the Washington Sq. Park Space, however have nonetheless continued their coordinated and in depth sale of those lethal medicine.”

These behind the subtle operation have already been nabbed by cops not less than 80 instances, collectively, for a spate of drug-related offenses throughout the previous 5 years, the indictment, filed in Federal District Courtroom in Manhattan, alleges.

Regardless of being thrown behind bars, the drug peddlers allegedly simply return to promoting the narcotics as quickly as they’re ultimately lower free, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.  

The operation is basically made up of Bloods gangbangers, in addition to a community of sellers who reply to John Livigni – an alleged mastermind who was amongst these rounded up within the newest batch of chargers.

NYPD officers trying to find medicine at Washington Sq. Park on Oct. 10, 2025. Helayne Seidman
Needles seen on the bottom close to the youngsters’s playground at Washington Sq. Park. Helayne Seidman

As a part of the community, the 2 teams allegedly had an settlement to not promote in one another’s territory – and every had completely different coloured baggage to distinguish their medicine, the indictment states.

The primary dying tied to the Washington Sq. Park community unfolded in June final 12 months when the teenager, who had simply flown in from Colorado to begin a summer time internship on Broadway, requested somebody to tee up cocaine for his arrival.

“Common mans was not there Obtained u some from one other trusted man was only a Iii dearer If you find yourself not liking it I can get u from the common mans asap however tbh [to be honest] this s–t gasoline,” the individual ended up texting the teenager after buying the medicine, courtroom papers state.

A shirtless man seen slumped over on a bench at Washington Sq. Park on Sept. 24, 2025. Helayne Seidman
A person seen apparently smoking crack in Washington Sq. Park. Helayne Seidman

The teenager responded, “Excellent, I belief you.”

He was discovered lifeless of a drug overdose the next day, the indictment states. His physique was found within the Manhattan condominium the place he’d been staying with a purple bag of medication underneath his wrist.

Lower than six months later, the homeless sufferer’s physique was discovered outdoors a Greenwich Village condominium constructing.

Vagrants seen gathered at Washington Sq. Park on Sept. 24, 2025. Helayne Seidman

Cops found empty blue baggage allegedly bought by the Livigni Staff and purple baggies typically utilized by the Bloods gang proper subsequent to the physique, the indictment states.

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These charged within the Washington Sq. Park community have been slapped with conspiracy to distribute narcotics leading to dying costs. 

The defendants named within the indictment embrace: Maliek Lugg, John Livigni, Curtis Miller, Tommy Brown, Christian Cortez, Jared Covington, Nazzir Washington, Vito Haskins, Felix Cuevas, Manny Pina, Andre Bethea, Sean Thom, Bishara Strother, Robert Johnson, Henry Rodriguez, Peter Rodriguez, Daniel Negron, Brandi Felci and Blake Tannenbaum.  

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