He was later arrested by police in Florida in an undercover drug sting, subsequently getting sentenced to 15 years in prison with a $50,000 fine.
Hard Times faced closing in January 2000, when several arrests were made as a result of a drug sting at the cafe.
Then, on Sunday night, a man with a machete was shot to death during a drug sting in East Harlem.
Preposterous if by preposterous you mean based on a real drug sting.
The shooting was the second in two days by the police during a drug sting.
He started wearing his Kevlar vest after he was shot and nearly blinded in a 1988 drug sting.
"Go" follows three teen-age supermarket clerks who become involved in a drug sting and attempted murder.
On Aug. 15, police officers killed a machete-wielding man during a drug sting in Spanish Harlem.
An undercover police officer was shot and seriously wounded on a Brooklyn street last night during a buy-and-bust drug sting, the police said.
"It seems to have become a black and white thing since the drug sting."
