Then, packaged by the pound, the dope was delivered to a home base--a call center in a hotel room in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Long Island or one of Nebel's seven houses (all owned under different names) in the metro area.
At the base of the machine, where you'd normally retrieve your can of Coke or your bag of pretzels, Mehdizadeh holds a palm-sized green box with a snap closure, containing the Nutrition Health Center's business card and, of course, the dope.