Cops delivered two strikes against the drug Ecstasy, busting a ring based in Staten Island and arresting a woman trying to smuggle more than 26,000 pills past security at Kennedy Airport, police said yesterday.
Six suspects were charged with drug possession when police raided a residence at 149 Vassar St., near the Staten Island Mall, Friday night and recovered 1,121 Ecstasy pills.
Police said the ring was a major Ecstasy supplier for the borough, with many of the pills sold at Silo, a Staten Island club.
Earlier Friday afternoon, Toma Hylton, 24, of Jupiter, Fla., was nabbed tried to smuggle 26,532 Ecstasy pills past security after getting off a British Airways flight from London .