Yet in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, the price of $85 to $90 for an eight ball is unchanged. A street dealer in Manhattan has raised his price for a bag to $32 from $20. In Staten Island, they said, a weak ''bag'' of less than a gram of cocaine has jumped to $25 from $20. Undercover buyers say the price of an ''eight-ball,' or three and a half grams of cocaine, has risen in Queens from $105 to $125 to $150. The jump in local wholesale prices seems to be having a spotty impact on street sales. They're going to say, 'Let's take advantage of this.' ''Ĭocaine prices have not risen in other regions, he said, and ''we're not seeing any disruption in the pipeline'' from Colombia. Chretien, the Drug Enforcement Administration's assistant administrator for intelligence, said in a telephone interview from Washington. ''What we're seeing is some entrepreneurial gouging,'' Craig N. But some investigators said they suspected that other New York distributors were raising their wholesale price, while telling customers that the seizure in Queens and a separate police offensive against drug dealing in upper Manhattan had created a serious shortage of cocaine. Since early this year, the price that wholesalers charge street-level dealers for a kilogram of cocaine has risen to $30,000 or even $35,000, from about $17,000 to $20,000, law enforcement officials said.Ī seizure the size of the one in March might be expected to have a momentary impact on supply, and therefore price, in the New York area.
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