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NYPD school safety agent Donald Gibbs is in a whole lot of trouble. The officer ensured with keeping students safe, has himself been arrested for allegedly selling drugs in front of a residential building in Queens.

Details are still scarce, but The Associated Press reports that the 47-year-old man was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal use of drug paraphernalia. It was reported that he does not yet have an attorney.

Even his father’s ability to hire the most expensive NYC attorney won’t help him now. Cameron Douglas, the son of Hollywood icon Michael Douglas, will now be spending almost a decade in jail.

On top of his earlier five year prison sentence for drug dealing, Douglas was given another four and a half years in jail for drug possession while in prison. The tough sentence was more than twice what prosecutors had asked for, reports the New York Post.

Drug dealers should follow traffic and seat belt laws. Reggae artist Denroy Morgan was stopped after failing to stop at a stop sign. That created a sequence of events that led police to a home in the Bronx containing over 300 pounds of marijuana.

Morgan was pulled over after ignoring a stop sign in the Bronx, reports the New York Post. At the stop, police noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming from Morgan’s car. Police questioned the reggae artist, and Morgan admitted he had some pot in his trunk. There were two bags of the drug totaling 25 pounds in the trunk.

The biggest catch from the undercover NYPD drug investigation at Columbia University will begin serving his three-and-a-half-month prison sentence this week. Twenty-year-old Harrison David pleaded guilty to a felony charge of dealing cocaine from his frat house last month and agreed to six months in jail at Rikers Island. However, the former student can be released after a little over three months for good behavior and time served.

The undercover police investigation conducted at the university revealed that several students, dubbed the “Columbia Cartel,” engaged in heavy drug dealing of marijuana, cocaine, and prescription medication, reports the New York Post. Five students were arrested, including David. David was accused of the most serious charges and he was the first to be sentenced. Charges are still pending against the remaining members of the cartel.

Shortly after his NHL season ended, New York Ranger enforcer Derek Boogaard was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment due to an apparent drug overdose. It was revealed that he had battled a history of drug addiction.

While Derek Boogaard’s death was originally considered just an unfortunate accident, the New York Post is now reporting that his brother, Aaron Boogaard, is being charged in the death.

A 20-year old Columbia University student, Harrison David, was busted for sale of a controlled substance under New York drug laws after allegedly running a drug ring from the campus.

According to The New York Times, David was the primary target of an undercover investigation that netted four other students. David was busted last year after selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.

Law enforcement officials recently apprehended 12 people who were part of the New York drug ring known as the Park Slope drug dealers, whom police said have sold over $70,000 worth of heroin to undercover agents in Brooklyn.

Authorities identified 32-year-old Edwin Perez and two of his closest accomplices, 33-year-old Francisco Perez and 42-year-old Jose Trinidad, as the chief suppliers for the drug ring. The three men and 9 others were arrested and are currently subject to charges of selling drugs and conspiracy, according to the New York Daily Times.

Twenty-nine-year-old Louis Scala II is one among the 31 individuals who have been charged with the conspiracy of trafficking almost 43,000 oxycodone pills out of Staten Island, New York. The total number of pills has been valued at almost $1 million, and prosecutors identified Joseph J. Zaffuto, 39, as the ring leader of the illegal venture.

According to The New York Times, Scala operated an ice cream truck on Staten Island called Lickety Split and sold oxycodone, an incredibly addictive prescription painkiller and opiate, along with the typical assortment of frozen sweets. Prosecutors alleged that Scala and Zaffuto had sold enough prescriptions in Staten Island last year to supply over one fourth of the area's population.

An investigation by the NYPD's gang unit in Manhattan led to a startling discovery of high-powered weapons at the alleged cocaine distribution facility of suspected gangster Victor Miri, 29. According to the New York Daily News, law enforcement officials immediately arrested Miri and his 30-year-old brother Tonin and charged them with gun and drug possession.

Authorities came across boxes of ammunition, a collection of 12 guns, a bulletproof vest, night vision goggles, and M-80 explosives when they busted into Miri's Bronx apartment. They had also seized small amounts of marijuana and cocaine along with the equipment required to operate the drug operation, such as a cocaine grinder, vacuum seal presser, and an electronic money counter.

Many New Yorkers may have heard about the famous 28-year-old Harlem rapper Juelz Santana, who was arrested on drug charges after police officials searched his recording studio in New Jersey in January. The New York Daily News reported authorities also found that one of Santana’s artists, Toby “Hynief” Raynor, had been allegedly selling marijuana.

Raynor, who was signed to Santana’s Skull Gang Entertainment label, was also taken into custody and accused of selling pot to undercover police officers two times during a ten-month investigation. Law enforcement officials also found two loaded 9mm handguns and 17 small bags of weed in the Bergenfield, N.J. studio.