NJ pot and cocaine run goes bad

Edwin Spears, 49, and Leonardo Petrosillo, 45, were indicted after feds seized 28 pounds of cocaine and 500 pounds of pot from a private jet at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The plane was headed to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, but the aircraft never left on Nov. 16 due to turbulence — US Customs and Border Protection. Surveillance footage showed Spears and Petrosillo move the drug-filled luggage from their vehicles into a hotel near the airport and then to the plane.

Spears has a criminal history dating to 1992, and was collared in 2010 on charges of money laundering, bribery, and racketeering. Described as a 'five-star general' of the Nine Trey Bloods, he has ties to the Lucchese crime family and others. Spears and Petrosillo pleaded not guilty to drug conspiracy charges in Brooklyn Federal Court. They are jailed in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.