Exclusive | Meet NYC’s “Worst Drug Dealer” –

A suspected drug dealer has been arrested 20 times in two years for dealing crack, heroin, fentanyl and other drugs in Manhattan – but he keeps being let back on the streets, records show.

“We call him the worst drug dealer in New York City,” a police source said of 20-year-old Brandon Hunter.

“He just laughs. He says, ‘I’m coming out anyway.'” It doesn’t matter.'”

According to a criminal complaint, Hunter was last arrested on Oct. 27 for allegedly selling crack cocaine at West 37th Street and Ninth Avenue in Midtown at 6:50 p.m.

An alleged customer gave him cash and Hunter “threw him a small plastic bottle, which the unknown individual retrieved,” the complaint states.

When officers stopped Hunter, they found 84 vials of crack cocaine in his right jacket pocket and 39 glassine bottles of heroin and a brick of crack cocaine in his left pocket, authorities said in the complaint.

Hunter was placed on supervised release on the drug possession charge, said special narcotics prosecutor spokeswoman Kati Cornell.

The Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office has handled all narcotics cases filed by patrol officers in the Midtown South Precinct over the past two years, “in response to serious concerns about open and disruptive street trafficking in the area, as well as high overdose rates,” Cornell said.

According to records, this is the second time Hunter has been arrested in the same area.

He was caught around 9 a.m. on May 4, 2023, at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 38th Street after police officers found him with 10 empty vials and loose suspected crack cocaine in his jacket pocket, 51 vials of alleged crack cocaine in his pants pocket, and others According to an indictment, he was fined $59.

He pleaded guilty to attempted drug possession with intent to sell on Feb. 7 and was sentenced to nine months at Rikers Island, covering his other open cases, Cornell said.

He was released on July 25 after just five months behind bars — and arrested again three weeks later on August 9, records show.

This time, Hunter, whose nickname is “Peanut,” was carrying six blue glass bottles of alleged heroin in a black bag, a clear bag of alleged crack cocaine and $146, according to a criminal complaint.

At his arraignment on August 9, notoriously lenient Judge Valentina Morales – who last year released a Venezuelan migrant without bail after he allegedly stabbed a tourist in Times Square – admitted that Hunter had recently been released from prison.

“I am concerned about the new allegations since he was just released,” she said, according to a court filing.

Moralez still released Hunter on supervised release. An attorney listed for Hunter did not return calls seeking comment.

Hunter, who was arrested again less than three months after his last arrest, is now being considered for a drug treatment program, court records show.

“But he is not a drug user,” the police source said. “He’s a drug dealer!”