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Greenwich Drug-Dealing Duo Nabbed Selling Fentanyl, Crack: Police Greenwich Drug-Dealing Duo Nabbed Selling Fentanyl, Crack: Police
Greenwich Drug-Dealing Duo Nabbed Selling Fentanyl, Crack: Police A Fairfield County woman and a New York resident have been charged with allegedly selling fentanyl and crack in the area, police said. An investigation found that the two were selling drugs in the town of Greenwich. The investigation revealed that the two sold fentanyl and crack cocaine from a home located in the Greenwich Housing Authority in Central Greenwich, said Lt. Ted Latiak, of the Greenwich Police. Latial said a search warrant was executed on Wednesday, Aug. 30 in the home of Robin Repaci, age 61, of Greenwich, where police found "significant amounts" of cocaine and suspected…
Man Caught With Heroin, Cocaine After Passing Out At Diner In Northern Westchester: Police Man Caught With Heroin, Cocaine After Passing Out At Diner In Northern Westchester: Police
Man Caught With Heroin, Cocaine After Passing Out At Diner In Northern Westchester: Police A 35-year-old Hudson Valley man faces drug charges after passing out on the stairs of a diner in Northern Westchester while in possession of heroin and crack cocaine, police said.  The arrest stemmed from an incident on Friday, July 7 around 6:30 p.m., when Yorktown Police responded to the Route 202 Diner at 3825 Crompond Rd. to help a man who had passed out on the stairs.  According to police, officers found out that the man, identified as 35-year-old Putnam County resident Eric Keith Miller of Lake Peekskill, was allegedly in possession of a quantity of crack cocaine and heroin.…
Crack Cocaine, Loaded Illegal Gun Found In Dropped Fanny Pack In Westchester: Police Crack Cocaine, Loaded Illegal Gun Found In Dropped Fanny Pack In Westchester: Police
Crack Cocaine, Loaded Illegal Gun Found In Dropped Fanny Pack In Westchester: Police Two people were arrested on narcotics charges after one of the suspects dropped a fanny pack containing crack cocaine and an illegal firearm during a chase in Westchester, police said.  The incident happened on Wednesday, May 10, when members of the White Plains Public Safety Neighborhood Initiative Unit were investigating narcotics sales in the Winbrook Commons area and noticed an illegal drug transaction, according to White Plains Public Safety.  Officers then tried to stop both the buyer and seller. However, one of the individuals began running away, which initiated a chas…
8 People Charged After Crack Cocaine Stash Found In Westchester County Home: Police 8 People Charged After Crack Cocaine Stash Found In Westchester County Home: Police
8 People Charged After Crack Cocaine Stash Found In Westchester County Home: Police An early morning raid at a home in Westchester County resulted in the arrest of eight people and the seizure of a crack cocaine stash, police said.  On Thursday, Dec. 22, around 5 a.m., police in Mount Vernon descended upon a residence at 111 South Fulton Ave. after an investigation into the sale of crack cocaine, according to an announcement by Mount Vernon Police from Wednesday, Dec. 28. Authorities found several people inside the home along with a stash of over 130 grams of the illegal drug.  The following seven people were charged with third-degree criminal possession of a co…
Woman Nabbed With 'Candy-Like' Drugs At Hotel In Hudson Valley, Police Say Woman Nabbed With 'Candy-Like' Drugs At Hotel In Hudson Valley, Police Say
Woman Nabbed With 'Candy-Like' Drugs At Hotel In Hudson Valley, Police Say A Hudson Valley woman was nabbed with "candy-like" methamphetamine pills and crack cocaine at an area hotel during a warrant search. Dutchess County resident Cali A. Hamilton, age 25, of the town of Poughkeepsie, was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 27 by members of the Dutchess County Drug Task Force at the Red Roof Inn in Poughkeepsie. According to Det. Sgt. Adam Harris, coordinator of the Dutchess County Task Force, agents executed a warrant at the Red Roof Inn and seized a quantity of “candy-like” pills determined to be methamphetamine and a quantity of crack cocaine.  Hamilto…
Northern Westchester Man Nabbed With Fentanyl, Crack Cocaine, Authorities Say Northern Westchester Man Nabbed With Fentanyl, Crack Cocaine, Authorities Say
Northern Westchester Man Nabbed With Fentanyl, Crack Cocaine, Authorities Say A man was arrested on narcotics charges during a routine traffic stop in the region. Northern Westchester resident William E. Felling, age 40, of Somers, was arrested on Friday, Sept. 2 in Putnam County on Route 6 in the town of Southeast. During the stop an investigation found Felling was in possession of a quantity of fentanyl and crack cocaine, said Putnam County Sheriff Kevin J. McConville. Felling was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was released on his own recognizance, pending a return court date on Thursday, Sept. 15.
Duo Nabbed For Drug Running To Hudson Valley Duo Nabbed For Drug Running To Hudson Valley
Duo Nabbed For Drug Running To Hudson Valley Two men have been charged for allegedly running drugs from New Jersey to the Hudson Valley following a long-term investigation. Khalif Johnson, age 22, and Zakhi Jenkins, age 19, both of Paterson, New Jersey, were arrested in Orange County by Port Jervis Police on Tuesday, July 5. The months-long investigation focused on the duo bringing drugs from Paterson to Port Jervis including selling crack cocaine and 650 bags of fentanyl to an undercover police officer, said the Orange County District Attorney's Office. During the investigation, police recovered three ounces of crack cocaine and ap…
Accused Area Drug Dealer Arrested For Murder Of Customer Accused Area Drug Dealer Arrested For Murder Of Customer
Accused Area Drug Dealer Arrested For Murder Of Customer Updated story: Details Emerge In Case Of Missing Hudson Valley Woman Found Dead An accused drug dealer in the Hudson Valley has been arrested for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and for traveling and using facilities of interstate commerce to operate a narcotics business enterprise, and murdering a customer he believed was stealing from that business, federal authorities in New York announced. The filing of a criminal complaint in Westchester County, at White Plains Federal Court on Friday, April 22, charges Putnam County resident Dwayne Pu…
Two Busted With 148 Grams Of Crack Cocaine During Taconic Parkway Stop, State Police Say Two Busted With 148 Grams Of Crack Cocaine During Taconic Parkway Stop, State Police Say
Two Busted With 148 Grams Of Crack Cocaine During Taconic Parkway Stop, State Police Say New York State Police troopers on patrol on the Taconic State Parkway in Dutchess County busted two with nearly 150 grams of crack cocaine, authorities announced. Troopers conducted a traffic stop on a 2021 Chevrolet Malibu at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26 for a vehicle and traffic violation on the parkway in Pleasant Valley, investigators announced on Monday, Jan. 31. According to police, during the subsequent stop, it was determined that the driver, Jazzmen Johnson, age 31, and passenger, Jaquell Fleming, age 26, both of Brooklyn, were in possession of approximately 148 gr…
Rapper Fetty Wap Trafficked 100 Kilos Of Opioids From NY Across US, Federal Officials Say Rapper Fetty Wap Trafficked 100 Kilos Of Opioids From NY Across US, Federal Officials Say
Rapper Fetty Wap Trafficked 100 Kilos Of Opioids From NY Across US, Federal Officials Say Rapper Fetty Wap was among six men charged with running an elaborate cross-country drug distribution ring out of New York, authorities announced. The rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was arrested Thursday, Oct. 28 by FBI agents at Citi Field. An indictment was unsealed on Long Island, in Central Islip federal court, Friday, Oct. 29, charging six men with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances, including five of them also charged for using weapons in connection to drug trafficking. The six men distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, …
State Police Issue Alert For Woman Wanted In Hudson Valley State Police Issue Alert For Woman Wanted In Hudson Valley
State Police Issue Alert For Woman Wanted In Hudson Valley Recognize her? New York State Police are attempting to locate a woman wanted in the Hudson Valley after she was busted with heroin, crack cocaine, and other drugs during a stop on I-87. Police investigators in Haverstraw are attempting to locate Kimberly Schultz, who was arrested following a traffic stop on I-87 in New Paltz and charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. According to police, at the time of the stop, Schultz, who was a passenger in the car, was found to be in possession of marijuana, crack-cocaine, heroin, Xanax, and Alprazolam. Following her…
Man Tried To Steal Trooper's Firearm During Struggle In Northern Westchester, Police Say Man Tried To Steal Trooper's Firearm During Struggle In Northern Westchester, Police Say
Man Tried To Steal Trooper's Firearm During Struggle In Northern Westchester, Police Say A man attacked a state trooper and tried to steal his gun after he was pulled over for a routine traffic violation and found in possession of a quantity of crack cocaine faces a slew of criminal charges, police said.  According to state police, 52-year-old Aaron Hudson of Cortlandt was pulled over at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10 on Warren Street in the town of Somers.  After police found crack cocaine in Hudson's black Volvo XC-90, police said, he violently resisted arrest, pitching himself and a state trooper over a guide rail and into a stream bed five feet below.  Hudson r…
13 Charged With Distributing Crack Cocaine Throughout Westchester 13 Charged With Distributing Crack Cocaine Throughout Westchester
13 Charged With Distributing Crack Cocaine Throughout Westchester Thirteen people are facing charges for allegedly distributing crack cocaine throughout Westchester County. It is alleged that Wendell Jones, Jesse Dabbs, Jason Bogan, Byron Mountain, Sarah Gillon, Dorothy “Dot” McAllister, Gustavo “Tavo” Gonzalez, Kevin Herbin, Willie “Black” Sims, Maurice Ellis, Isaac “Face” Mallory, Hakim “Hak” Anderson and Rahmen “Major” Garraway sought to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine in Northern Westchester. “We have all seen the devastating effects that drugs have played in destroying individuals, families, and even communities,” Peekskill Police Ch…
11 Charged With Distributing Narcotics After Westchester Raid 11 Charged With Distributing Narcotics After Westchester Raid
11 Charged With Distributing Narcotics After Westchester Raid Eleven suspects are facing charges for allegedly distributing crack cocaine in and around Westchester County. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced that 11 people had been charged with narcotics distribution offenses in White Plains federal court. On Thursday, Sept. 19, the FBI and members of the Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force searched properties in Greenburgh and the Bronx as part of an ongoing investigation into the crack cocaine ring, which has been ongoing since at least 2018. It is alleged that from 2018 through this month, Randy Sargeant, Kelvin Ganpat, Jeancarlos Laureano,…
Man Sentenced For Selling Crack Cocaine To Undercover Officers In Westchester Man Sentenced For Selling Crack Cocaine To Undercover Officers In Westchester
Man Sentenced For Selling Crack Cocaine To Undercover Officers In Westchester A 28-year-old convict from Westchester will spend time behind bars after admitting to selling crack-cocaine to undercover investigators earlier this year. Harry Quintana-Cruz - aka “YG” - of Yonkers, has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a felony, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, announced on Tuesday, July 30. Quintana-Cruz, a second felony offender, pleaded guilty in April after being arrested by police in Yonkers last December. Scarpino said that on four separate occasions…
Wanted: Have You Seen This Suspect At Large In Hudson Valley? Wanted: Have You Seen This Suspect At Large In Hudson Valley?
Wanted: Have You Seen This Suspect At Large In Hudson Valley? Have you seen him? New York State Police investigators from Haverstraw have issued an alert for a man wanted on drug charges dating back to a traffic stop on the New York State Thruway in New Windsor. According to police, 28-year old Andrew Holden was driving on the Thruway when he was stopped in New Windsor. During that traffic stop, troopers said that Holden was found to be in possession of heroin, a hypodermic needle and crack cocaine. He later failed to appear in court to answer the charges and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest from the Town of New Windsor Court. Holden was des…
Northern Westchester Drug Trafficker Gets 11-Year Sentence Northern Westchester Drug Trafficker Gets 11-Year Sentence
Northern Westchester Drug Trafficker Gets 11-Year Sentence A drug trafficker who operated out of a Northern Westchester housing project for years has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars. Edward Holliman has been sentenced to 135 months in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine in Peekskill between 2013 and 2017 after pleading guilty on April 24. He must also forfeit $30,000 and will be subjected to five years of supervised release when he is released from prison. Beginning in 2013, Holliman supplied and distributed crack cocaine in and around Hohlmann Towers in Peekskill. To facilitate his drug sales, Holliman had several “w…
Man Caught With Crack In Jefferson Valley Mall Parking Lot, Police Say Man Caught With Crack In Jefferson Valley Mall Parking Lot, Police Say
Man Caught With Crack In Jefferson Valley Mall Parking Lot, Police Say A 60-year-old man in a suspicious van was busted with crack cocaine in the Jefferson Valley Mall parking lot in the middle of the day, police said. A plainclothes police officer from the Yorktown Police Department approached the van in the parking lot at approximately 2:20 p.m. on Aug. 1, when he said he saw Mahopac resident Robert McGuigan “acting in a suspicious manner.” Officers approached the vehicle for further investigation, police said. An investigation was conducted, and it is alleged that McGuigan was in possession of crack cocaine, and he was arrested. McGuigan was charged with a…
Hudson Valley Cocaine, Crack Dealer Sentenced Hudson Valley Cocaine, Crack Dealer Sentenced
Hudson Valley Cocaine, Crack Dealer Sentenced An Orange County drug dealer who was found guilty of selling crack and cocaine in the Hudson Valley has been sentenced to a decade behind bars for his role in a drug distribution ring. Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced this week that Collyer “West” Goodman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in supplying at least 14 other drug dealers with cocaine and crack cocaine in Middletown after being convicted by a jury in October last year. According to Berman, Goodman supplied packages of cocaine to more than a dozen co-conspira…
Stamford Duo Nabbed In PCP Drug Bust Stamford Duo Nabbed In PCP Drug Bust
Stamford Duo Nabbed In PCP Drug Bust Two Stamford men were nabbed with PCP after officers with the Narcotics and Organized Crime unit received intel about illegal drug sales out of the back of a vehicle, according to Stamford Police. Michael C. Bell, 49, and Christopher E. Jones, 34, were busted around 1 a.m. Saturday after the unit received a tip the two men were selling drugs from a tan Nissan in the parking lot on Stillwater Avenue, said Capt. Richard Conklin. As officers approached the vehicle, they could smell the PCP,  a “very potent hallucinogen," said Conklin. “It has quite a unique odor that is easy to recognize…
10 Hudson Valley Gang Members Face New Charges 10 Hudson Valley Gang Members Face New Charges
10 Hudson Valley Gang Members Face New Charges Nearly a dozen members of a Newburgh street gang face additional racketeering and firearms charges, according to the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David M. Hoovler, the Orange County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, Ashan M. Benedict, the New York Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Aaron Weaver, the Acting Chief of the City of Newburgh Police Department, announced add…
Westchester Man Behind Bars After Upstate Heroin Bust Westchester Man Behind Bars After Upstate Heroin Bust
Westchester Man Behind Bars After Upstate Heroin Bust A White Plains man was busted for having 67 bags of heroin and other drugs during a traffic stop by Sullivan County Sheriff's deputies. Mykell Gray, 37, was arrested around 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 30, after deputies stopped his vehicle for a violation on Route 42 in the Town of Thompson, said Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty. During the stop, the deputy uncovered the heroin, in addition to 24 bags of crack cocaine and three cellphones, Chaboty said. Gray was charged with three felony counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.  He is being held without …