Port Jeff Station Man Nabbed With Drugs, Weapons After Officers Witness Transaction, Police Say

A Long Island man is facing drug and weapon charges after officers witnessed him engage in a hand-to-hand drug transaction, police said.

Suffolk County PD officers recovered two handguns, a Ruger LCP .380 and a Burgo .22-caliber short revolver, along with more than $100,000 in cash and a quantity of fentanyl and methadone, police said.
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Joe Lombardi

03/06/2022 10:15 a.m.

Suffolk County Police Sixth Precinct Anti-Crime officers were conducting surveillance of a known narcotics dealer, Donald Goodwin, age 31, when they witnessed him conduct a drug transaction in Centereach and then leave the location in a 2014 Infiniti.

The officers followed and pulled over the vehicle on Route 347, near Mark Tree Road, in Centereach at 3:07 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, said police.

Upon searching Goodwin, a resident of Port Jefferson Station, and the vehicle, officers recovered two handguns, a Ruger LCP .380 and a Burgo .22-caliber short revolver, along with more than $100,000 in cash and a quantity of fentanyl and methadone, police said.

Goodwin was charged with the following:

Two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon,
Two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon,
Two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance,
One count of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance,
Resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration.

Goodwin is scheduled to be arraigned Sunday, March 6 at First District Court in Central Islip.

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