Feds Arrest Accused Opioid Dealer & Pull Out Assault Rifle On Cortelyou Road

A Ditmas Park man was arrested in broad daylight on Cortelyou Road yesterday for conspiracy to sell drugs in a narcotics ring, said officials.

Anthony Legros, 33, was caught by feds at Marlborough and Cortelyou Roads at 4:14pm on Tuesday, April 4, according to NYPD records.

Multiple neighbors saw plain clothes agents arrest Legros and pull out an assault rifle from a black SUV parked on Cortelyou Road. It was not a movie set, though it may have felt like you’d stepped right into one.

Legros’s charges include conspiracy to distribute/and possession of Fentanyl, Oxycodone, and Percoset. According to the criminal complaint, Legros supplied drugs to narcotics ring leader Carl French, who was arrested in a 14-person drug bust in Massachusettes on March 21.

A federal agent from the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms division caught Legros using DEA-intercepted phone calls between him and French discussing payment (“You know how imam send you bread, right?”) and distribution (“You have anybody that takes percs?…They going for like seven, eight dollars a pops”), among other things.

Legros was also identified using in-person surveillance, the complaint stated.

One witness at the arrest scene in Ditmas Park, who wished to remain anonymous, said:

“All the sudden I heard someone yell ‘get on the ground’ and saw four cops with their guns drawn on a car right in front of Manchego.

One cop yanked a white male onto the ground and arrested [him], and three unmarked cars pulled up behind a black-out Suburban. One officer opened the SUV trunk and looked like they placed an assault rifle from the arresting car. Everyone got in their cars and someone drove off in the arresting car at the same time.

It was scary yet seemed like it was straight out of a movie. There were so many people walking by. No officers even kept the public at bay. What if shots rang out?”

Legros was detained in Manhattan court today, and the bail argument will be set for a later date, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office, Southern District.

This article was updated at 6:30pm will criminal complaint details and charges.