Cocaine and guns seized from a man’s home in Queens will be kept out of evidence because police used a warrant that didn’t specifically identify the apartment to be searched.
Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein (See Profile) suppressed an assault rifle, a handgun and over 130 grams of cocaine base taken from defendant Shakeel Wiggins in 2013 because police who applied for the search warrant didn’t tell the issuing judge they were searching a multi-family dwelling.
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