Exclusive | REVOLVING DOOR: NYCs Worst drug dealer busted again with cocaine, heroin, ecstasy

The man nicknamed NYC’s “worst drug dealer” because he’s been arrested 20 times in two years was nabbed again this month, according to court records.Brandon Hunter was arrested Feb.5 after he was caught with crack cocaine, heroin and the club drug MDMA, or ecstasy, records show.Hunter, 20, was picked up for dealing drugs in at the same Midtown spot he’s been caught in at least two times before, according to police sources.Hunter — who this time ran from cops trying to arrest him — was almost immediately released because his crimes weren’t bail eligible, according to court records and officials.Cops spotted Hunter at the corner of West 37th Street and Eighth Avenue around 4:30 a.m.

and saw him “reach into his right jacket pocket and hand a small object” to another person, according to a criminal complaint.As soon as an officer tried to step out of his vehicle, Hunter took off running, authorities said in the complaint.“I then observed Hunter stop, throw a backpack that he was wearing into the middle of the street and run back westbound on West 38th Street,” the cop wrote in the complaint.Two other officers caught up with Hunter and “had to perform a forcible takedown” to get him in custody, according to the complaint.When cops searched him, they allegedly recovered “a plastic twist bag containing 37 vials of alleged crack/cocaine and $20 in U.S.currency” along with four packs of alleged heroin.In the backpack, cops discovered a plastic twist bag containing a rock of crack/cocaine, another plastic twist bag continuing 103 pills of alleged MDMA and $274 in cash, according to the complaint.At his arraignment, prosecutors asked for bail, but Judge Ilona Coleman released him with non-monetary conditions because the charges weren’t bail eligible under the state’s 2019 bail reform laws, according to court documents.Coleman, who has been on the bench since Jan.

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