Long Island federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people with operating what officials called a massive illegal “birth tourism” scheme in which dozens of pregnant Turkish women paid up to $10,000 to give birth in Suffolk County so that their children would have U.S. citizenship.

An undercover operation that netted dozens of arrests Tuesday on illegal dumping charges centered on a dirt broker who offered residents clean fill and instead arranged for debris and solid waste to be placed on their properties.

A cross-country cocaine pipeline dried up after 44 pounds of the powder bound for Amityville were seized in California, leading to the indictment of 20 people who acted as drug couriers and distributors, Suffolk and federal officials said yesterday.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) were involved in the takedown of a cocaine distribution network and the indictments of 19 people on charges of operating as a major drug trafficker and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

They were rounded up in a bust said to be “a major disruption of La Costra Nostra’s activities on Long Island”. John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio, Frank “Frankie Boy” Salerno, and Anthony Saladino will spend several years in prison for their crimes.

On October 1, 2010, Robert Spatafora pleaded guilty to Counts Three, Four, and Five of a five-count superseding indictment. Count Three charged that between July 2009 and February 2010, Spatafora, together with others, conspired to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846,