An “elaborate” cannabis-trafficking business operating out of a Brooklyn warehouse that was supplying multiple illegal smoke shops around the city has been shut down, with two people arrested, authorities said on Friday.
The business went by the name P.U. — for its powerfully pungent pot — which was stamped on the packaging of several of its products. If the operators were trying to keep a low profile, their product’s overpowering odor didn’t help.
“At least they got one thing right, and that was the name of their location,” Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry said at a press conference outside the warehouse, at 209 Highland Place in East New York, that was the central hub of the operation. “Their name is P.U. It’s the name of this organization, this warehouse behind me, and