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Officer Angelo Calabro stopped a gray Saturn with New York State license plates after the driver failed to signal a turn onto Memorial Drive shortly after 1:30 a.m., Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said.
The anxious driver, identified as Brian Ahrens, 30, of Smithtown, kept his left hand in his sweatpants pocket while failing to compose himself, Berdnik said.
When Calabro asked him whether there was anything illegal in the vehicle, Ahrens told him there were three bricks of heroin in the trunk.
Ahrens was charged with several drug possession counts, as well as illegal possession of a hypodermic syringe, before being released pending a first court appearance.
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