Brooklyn, NY – A drug dealer arrested last year who was known to stop sales during Shabbat will get up five years in prison.
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The New York Post (http://bit.ly/1e4VFEP) reports that Edward Sorin, 38, of Sheepshead Bay was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court to five years for weapons possession and three and a half years for a drug possession charge.
An observant Jewish drug dealer, Sorin was part of a drug gang that sent text messages to customers to say they’d be closing up early in honor of Shabbat.
The judge ordered that Sorin remain on supervised release for five years after his release.
Sorin and four others were responsible for a drug circle that dealt oxycodone, heroin and cocaine from Bedford Avenue Brooklyn residents Jack Zibak, David Gerowitz and Philip Mandel were also charged.
Police seized about 900 vials of heroin, 335 oxycodone pills, cocaine and prescription drugs Xanax, Suboxone and Klonopin after a six-month investigation.
A very short sentence considering the quantity of drugs. So for 5 years he’ll have an opportunity to sit and learn with no distraction and possibly make a minyon.
This is a real KIDDISH HASHEM
I have no words!!! Sounds like the old story of someone who killed his parents and then asked the judge for leniency because he’s an orphan
he didn’t deal on Shabbos, what a tzadik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
being he had such respect for the Shabbos. He defiantly deserves to be served Chulent on Shabbos. “Good Luck”
we think we’re so Frum. Some Yidden are Frum, but the ones that consider themselves Erlich, Erliche Yidden, not all of you are Frum. Maybe you keep Shabbos the way you’re supposed to, that’s also not so sure. Maybe you keep Kosher the way you’re supposed to, that’s also not absolute. But you’re not Frum, you think you’re Frum, but you’re not. I’m not speaking to those that are really trying hard to go back to the Emes. Go back to the way it once was in Europe, and in the lands of the Arabs where Jews were very ostracized and they had their own Kehillas not with any influence of the Goyim. And the Yidden in Europe that lived in the Shtettels and that held on to their Rebbes, to the Rabbonim who were greats, were giants, I’m not talking about them. They’re almost extinct today. I’m talking about the regular Yid, the average Yid, the average Yid is what’s going to save Am Yisroel, because he’s never been average. He’s always been much bigger than average, much greater than average. Because a Yid anyway is greater than any other type of human being.
Tzaddik, he kills children but never on shabbos
Don’t worry the rabbis will give him all the aliyas and honors when he gets out!
An observant Jewish drug dealer is an oxymoron.
So…his sentence is 1/7 less?
Althouigh I wasn’t a customer, I understand that he didn’t do business on Shabbos because the drug traffic on Shabblos would have been noticed in the neighborhood, not because of personal observance.
Hope this dealer meets with other troubles in prison or on the way out. His shmiras Shabbos cannot compensate for attempted murder of countless jewish customers.