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Officer Dave Erbele tackles Miguel Siano on Orkney Street following a surveilance by Erbele and his partner. Siano was arrested on drug-related charges.

Suspect is arrested in a restaurant where police observed drug sales. Officer points to cocaine packets found in the restaurant's kitchen.

Police break down door of a house where suspected drugs were kept. They had a warrant.

Drug user smokes 'crack' (called freebasing). The cocaine is cooked in a spoon and then smoked. The end product, being smoked here, is a refined, hard substance, a form of what is called 'crack.'

Portrait of drug dealers. The man with the handcuffs and the man with the grenade (which he said was live) are dealers at Marshall and Tioga. The third man is a visitor.

Two of the corner's drug dealers display money from their day's drug sales.

Dealers seldom keep drugs on their persons. This dealer (left) crouches to retrieve his stash beside a vacant lot as a neighborhood child watches.

Dealer, his face hidden from the camera, shows off his jewelry at Marshall and Tioga Streets.

On Marshall Street, a dealer makes a sale to a passing motorist, handing cocaine and collecting cash in open view.

This view of Tioga Street, looking west, shows two of the many corners in Philadelphia's Hunting Park section where drug dealing is wide open. Corner of Marshall & Tioga is in foreground.