Crime Scene
By MICHAEL WILSON
P. T. Barnum declared over 100 years ago that there is one born every minute. But where, when they grow up to become adults who visit New York, do they go to buy cocaine?
One answer can be found in recent arrests in Midtown Manhattan, specifically on Seventh Avenue in the upper 40s. As good an example as any played out on Sept. 12 at 2:40 a.m., when an unidentified man wearing a suit struck up a conversation with a 26-year-old stranger, Mohamed Saho, on the street, according to a criminal complaint.
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A version of this article appears in print on January 31, 2015, on page A16 of the New York edition with the headline: For Tourists Seeking Drugs, an Experience That’s Less Than Authentic. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
