🚓 The Gutter Report: “Illegal Enterprise” Shuttered in Hell’s Kitchen — Nine-Year Term
Guns, cocaine, ketamine, cash — and a playground across the street
A Hell’s Kitchen man, Patrick Sutherland (64), pleaded guilty to Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 2nd Degree, a plea that covers a 19-count indictment after an undercover NYPD probe in Midtown. As part of the deal, he’ll serve 9 years in prison plus 5 years post-release supervision, and forfeit $33,769.67, according to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor press release (9/15/25).
🔍 What they found (inside the W. 46th St. apartment)
Address: 457 W. 46th St., Apt 5A in Hell’s Kitchen.
Seized: nearly 4 kg combined of cocaine, ketamine, methamphetamine, plus heroin, fentanyl, MDMA, pills and over 10 lbs of marijuana.
Seven guns recovered (six in an attic tote; one in a closet) and $33k+ cash.
🔫 Firepower on display — multiple handguns and stacks of narcotics bagged and tagged as evidence.
🕵️ How they built the case
Undercover buys ran Feb 28–Jun 11, 2025, totaling 158g of cocaine for $10,000.
The guilty plea ties to an Apr 29 sale near 449 W. 46th St., directly across from a NYC Parks playground.
The bust followed a court-authorized search of the apartment on Jun 11, 2025.
🏢 Hell’s Kitchen hub — the 457 W. 46th Street building where Sutherland lived and ran his operation.
⚖️ The sentence & courtroom notes
Judge Cori H. Weston presided over the plea.
Sentence: 9 years prison + 5 years PRS; defendant classified as a violent predicate felon.
Local headlines branded the case an “illegal enterprise” takedown.
💊 Kilos on the table — wrapped cocaine bricks bagged and sealed by law enforcement.
📦 The full stash uncovered
📉 Bulk supply — ecstasy, ketamine, meth, powders, and pressed pills recovered in bulk during the raid.
🚨 Final sweep
🚔 Enterprise shut down — firearms, narcotics, and money seized in the coordinated Hell’s Kitchen bust.
âś… The takeaway (LFTG)
Guns in an attic, kilos in the crib, deals happening by a playground — this wasn’t a corner hustle. It was a full enterprise inside a Manhattan apartment, and the undercover work plus the warrant search made the case airtight. The 9-year hit and cash forfeiture send a message: if you mix guns + dope + kids nearby, you’re getting hammered.
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