Dealer Called 'Menace' Helped Sell $40K Of Drugs In Brooklyn: DA

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn “Menace” and a crew that sold almost $40,000 worth of drugs in East Flatbush have been arrested, prosecutors announced.

Eight people were arrested Monday after a yearlong undercover investigation into drug dealers lead by Anthony Myrie and Anthony “Menace” Philogene, New York City's special narcotics prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan announced.

Monday's arrests —which uncovered six guns, $1,000 in cash and a stack of "Menace" business cards — occurred after Narcotics Borough Brooklyn South officers bought cocaine, crack and marijuana worth $38,5000 from the Flatbush-based crew, said prosecutors.

Myrie sold crack to undercover agents 15 times and once took $1,200 from an officer for crack he never delivered, prosecutors said.

Philogene, also known as Menace, was responsible for the largest sale: He sold 62 grams of crack worth $3,900 on Prospect Place in Bed-Stuy on May 11, prosecutors said.

Philogene was arrested on June 14 in his Rosedale, Queens home where police found five guns, 10 grams of crack, drug paraphernalia and business cards with the name, “Menace,” prosecutors said.

Philogene was arraigned Monday and Myrie was arraigned on June 18 on charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance and grand larceny, prosecutors said.

A Manhattan Criminal Court judge ordered both men to be held without bail, said prosecutors.

The six other dealers working with Philogene and Myrie were named as John Jean, Dwayne Bell, Corven Desir, Roydon Pollock, Quamain Gardner and Omari Moses, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors noted that Jean stiffed a cop on a $530 crack deal, that Desir had stashed a gun and $1,000 in cash in his Flatbush home, and that Bell sold cocaine and marijuana to an officer in front of his two sons.

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