A Flanders man was arrested at his Riverside Avenue home Friday in an early-morning raid by the East End Drug Task Force, according to Southampton Town Police.
Police said officers from the district attorney’s task force executed a search warrant at 6:19 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the home of Faustino Juarez, 30, and recovered large quantities of cocaine, heroin and cash as well as two handguns and other evidence.
Juarez is charged with multiple felony narcotics sales between February and November.
He is facing charges of first-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, four counts of second-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, one count each of first-, third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, according to a police report.
The arrest was the result of a long-term investigation into narcotics sales by the task force, police said.
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