This is almost out of the pages of Richard Osman’s great read The Thursday Murder Club.
The residents of Rosa Parks Senior Center on Long Island, New York State, became suspicious that drug dealers were operating out of one of their apartments.
Carl Hanks, 84, walks with a cane and has a dog named Clyde.
“It makes me feel sad and I’m upset,” Mr Hanks told CBS.
Ann Belle Richards was also unhappy about the goings on below her unit.
“It makes me nervous, but I stay upstairs. I’m 87 years old,” she said.
Anonymous calls were made by the elderly residents to Nassau County police and to the local Hempstead council leaders.
“My residents have complained so much about the fact there are people coming into their complex where they live selling drugs,” Hempstead Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby said.
After a two-month investigation and armed with a search warrant, Nassau Council Police Department said they arrested seven accused dealers, most aged in their 40s and 50s, who have prior arrests. They are accused of selling out of the apartment of a 62-year-old man.
“They actually walked past uniformed police officers in the parking lot, right in through the door and went and knocked on the apartment to get more drugs,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.
