A pig: it's all in the game, yo
It's a side of the drug trade that even The Wire somehow failed to chronicle - Syracuse police say that 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. on Thursday.
The man offering the pig caracass, Angelo Colon, was arrested on a misdemeanor drug possession charge. Meanwhile the
pig recipient, 42-year-old Omar Veliz, faces a felony drug sale charge.
According to authorities, Colon paid half a pig and $10 for a $50 bag of crack. Veliz told police the pig was intended for a celebration for a relative,
who was being released from jail.
To round the story off nicely, while officers were arresting the suspects, someone else took the pig.
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