Video: Chickens Surprise Cops At Bronx Drug Bust

NEW YORK CITY — They didn't expect the chickens.

A drug bust on a Bronx pill mill Friday turned up a clucking surprise for cops in a Highbridge apartment building basement, according to city prosecutors.

"A court authorized search revealed the basement drug laboratory was outfitted with three industrial pill press machines, used to form counterfeit pills from illicit drugs," reads a press release from New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

"Agents and officers were surprised to also discover 30 to 50 roosters and chickens."

A breed of chicken commonly used for cock-fighting can be seen flapping freely in the dingy basement as a rooster gives a startled crow, prosecutors said.

A second video shows a wall of caged roosters.

Jeison Lebron, 28, and Alfredo Goris, 27, now face charges for running the basement pill mill underneath 136 W. 170th St., where cops found more than 2 pounds of suspected heroin and 5 pound of suspected meth, prosecutors said.

Lebron and Goris were arraigned in Manhattan criminal court Saturday for criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally using drug paraphernalia, said prosecutors.

“This is the first time our office has seen an illegal pill production operation of this scale, with three active pill presses,” said Special Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan.

“The lethal combination of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine, disguised as familiar pills, would have put unsuspecting users at grave risk of overdose.”