behind bars tonight following a massive sweep dubbed operation crushed ice and da says 27-year-old richard maytree the king pin and run the operation doing time in the county jail and went from philadelphia suburbs to arizona and puerto rico and 48 of his alleged cohorts were arrested in the place. lumberton is asking to catch this bank robber who held up a teller with a threatening note at the pnc on the 700 block of airston road at 2:20 this afternoon nearby schools were put on lock down and fortunately nobody was hurt. a star-studded party is going on in center city philadelphia the sixers youth foundation gala is at the 23rd stream armory and it's cheer leaders were greeting people and owner and josh harris served as honorary cochair with his wife. >> giving people a safe place to play sports and giving them mentors, feeding them, ultimately helping them educate themselves that is what it's all about in terms of helping them to lead better lives so it's incredibly important. >> plus to be able to contribute to this and you know have our input and give our time i think is great. >> reporter: in

the alleged masterminds behind this organization, he is 27, and arrest papers identify him as richard maytree of oxford chester county, it is alleged his drug dealing reached all levels of the community, even including schools and prosecutors say even when he was in the chester county prison he was still operating this drug distribution empire. detective also seized this bmw, along with about two dozen other carts, they claim, were used to traffic drugs in and out of the area, the da said of the 49 defendant, they were all operating a full scale illegal pharmacy. >> they could get you anything, they could get you crystal methamphetamine, could get you cocaine, could get you heroin, could get you marijuana. they could get you prescription pills. now, so this was a large scale drug trafficking organization that was spreading it poison all the way across the region. >> well prosecutors say once maitre was release from the the prison it was business as usual, how much, they applied for warrant to wiretap his phone. they were then able to track his movement so the question was what was his reactio