![]() “As soon as that door cracked, the aroma of marijuana was overwhelming,” the source said. Officials investigate Dell’s Maraschino Cherries. ![]() There, they found the weird shelving and magnetically operated secret compartment behind it in the wall.īehind the secret compartment, investigators discovered an entrance to a dug-out basement filled with three bags of marijuana. Mondella started out cooperative and calm during the several-hours-long search - until officials reached a room storing covered-up vintage vehicles, including a Rolls-Royce, a Porsche and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Investigators from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the DEP were technically searching the place for possible violations involving the dumping of waste when Mondella killed himself, sources said. ![]() ![]() Dell’s Maraschino Cherries factory in Brooklyn William Miller The company had recently become infamous with locals for turning sugar-addicted neighborhood bees red after they sipped on the syrupy sweet confection.Īuthorities wanted to get a warrant to search the place after getting tipped off that it was a front for a marijuana business, but when they couldn’t, they decided to try to do an end run through the Department of Environmental Protection, sources said. site, which sells to big chain restaurants such as Red Lobster, Buffalo Wild Wings and TGI Friday. Mondella had been trying to reinvigorate his cherry business at the 175 Dikeman St. He is suspected of using part of the factory as a grow house, sources said. Investigators later found three large bags of pot stashed behind the fake wall at the landmark business, which Mondella’s grandfather started. Arthur Mondella, owner of Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, fatally shot himself inside his Brooklyn factory on Feb. Mondella immediately “asked to use the bathroom, he went in the bathroom, and, ‘Boom,’ ” a source said.īefore shooting himself once in the head, Mondella told his sister, “Take care of my kids,” sources said. I wonder what the pay was like.Īfter a series of missteps and mergers, the last Loft’s store closed up shop in 1990.īut the store sign at 88 Nassau Street downtown lives on-it’s a cut above Manhattan’s next best candy store sign at Economy Candy.The owner of one of the country’s largest maraschino cherry companies fatally shot himself Tuesday as authorities raided his Brooklyn factory - a suspected massive drug front.ĭell’s Maraschino Cherries owner Arthur Mondella, 57, stood by and nervously watched as authorities spotted suspicious shelving in a storage room at his Red Hook facility - then opened up a door to the false wall behind it and the smell of weed wafted out, law enforcement sources said. Not a lot of men were around to do the wrapping, dipping, and stroking. ![]() Loft’s opened a candy factory in Long Island City in the 20th century-see the ad in the “female wanted” section of the Brooklyn Eagle in the wartime year of 1944. It all started with William and Anna Loft, English immigrants who came to New York in the 1850s and opened a small candy store on Canal Street a decade later that sold homemade chocolates.īy the 1920s, Loft’s was the biggest candy retailer in the nation, with 75 stores (including this one below on Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, circa 1959), according to Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City. ![]()
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