Font Size

Water Cooler

cbs4denver.com Showcase

People Rocked By Sex Scandals

E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

N.Y. Man Arrested For Using Dead Pig In Crack Deal

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

Recipient E-mail:*
- Your Name:*
- Your E-mail:*
Add a Message:
Send me a copy of this e-mail.

Type the characters in this picture:*

Click here to refresh with new letters

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

Print Share + Comments

Jun 6, 2009 9:51 am US/Mountain

N.Y. Man Arrested For Using Dead Pig In Crack Deal

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Pigs sit inside their pen at a farm. (File)
Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images

Close

numSlides of totalImages

It was a simpler sort of drug trade.

Syracuse police say a 45-year-old man offered a slaughtered pig as partial payment for a bag of crack cocaine.

They say two men were spotted making the deal on a street corner just before 8 p.m. Thursday.

Angelo Colon of Fulton was arrested on a misdemeanor drug possession charge and 42-year-old Omar Veliz faces a felony drug sale charge.

Police say Colon paid half a pig and $10 for a $50 bag of crack. Veliz told police the pig was for a celebration for a relative being released from jail.

While officers were arresting the suspects, someone took the pig.

Police don't know if the men have lawyers.