Brand New Hummer H2: $60,000
By MURRAY WEISS and DAN MANGAN
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092007/news/regionalnews/pot_luck_runs_out_regionalnews_murray_weiss_and_dan_mangan.htm
July 9, 2007
A Manhattan pot dealer and rock-star wannabe is facing 2½ years in prison after keeping refrigerators jam-packed with big bags of weed in his Murray Hill apartment.
Authorities also found a two-page letter from a fellow criminal acquaintance - full of juicy tips on how to not get arrested while dealing dope.
Peter Dagostino, a 56-year-old musician and recording-studio owner. Dagostino found marijuana, rather than music, the key to big bucks.
Dagostino was busted on April 19, 2006, at the $1,000-a-month studio apartment that he rents at 43 E. 20th St.
DEA agents found 88 pounds of pot wrapped in bundles and stuffed in several fridges.
They also found $65,000 in cash in the apartment, and they froze another $325,000 he had in bank accounts, according to prosecutors.
Dagostino, who remains free on $25,000 bail, pleaded guilty June 22 in Manhattan Supreme Court to possession of marijuana and agreed to cough up about $378,000 in drug money and vacate the Murray Hill apartment. He will be sentenced Sept. 24.
Every step you take down the Holloway Road, they'll be watching you.
Renewed calls are being made for warning signs to be put up in a Kent village after a sat-nav system caused a driver to get stuck in a narrow street. A Slovenian driver, carrying paper bound for Wales, followed a diversion from the M20, but it took him into a corner of Mereworth, near Maidstone. Resident Sarah Pascoe said she returned from a Tour de France party to find power cables down outside her home. She said she understood that some European firms tended to "only invest in car sat-nav", which would not take into account the size of a heavy goods vehicle.
A 1,500-pound wrecking ball broke loose from a crane cable and raced downhill, smashing into several cars and injuring three people before coming to rest in the trunk of a car at an intersection Monday. The wrecking ball, about 3 feet across, was being used to demolish part of a library at Allegheny College, Meadville, when the cable snapped, police said. The crane operator tried to stop it, but it rolled nearly three-quarters of a mile downhill, damaging more than a dozen vehicles as it bounced from curb to curb, police said. Most of the damaged vehicles were parked, but the ball slammed into the rear of Alex Habay's car stopped at an intersection, causing a chain reaction accident with two other cars at the traffic light, police said. "All of a sudden, the back windshield exploded and I hit the car in front of me," said Habay, 20, a junior at Allegheny College. The ball lodged in the trunk of a car, pushing the vehicle about 20 feet. "I got out of my car and couldn't believe it when I walked back and saw this giant wrecking ball sitting in the trunk of the last car," said Meadville police Officer Brian Joseph. Meadville is about 90 miles north of Pittsburgh.
