Organized crime bust nets Dyker Heights bakery owner
Federal law enforcement officials have busted one of the owners of Royal Crown Bakery on 14th Avenue in a bi-continental takedown that the FBI alleges involved organized crime and a scheme to smuggle drugs inside fish between Guyana and Italy.
On Tuesday, February 11, FBI agents arrested Franco Lupoi, who court papers depict as a mastermind of the scheme, and six other individuals in New York City, while another 17 people with alleged ties to the ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization were arrested in Italy.
“Lupoi exploited…underworld connections to link his criminal associates with those in Calabria, forming conspiracies to traffic heroin and cocaine,” charged U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in papers filed in Eastern District Court.