Brad Bender

Incarceration is as difficult as one might imagine, but returning home is also fraught with difficult adjustments. Former Southampton Town councilman Brad Bender opens up about his experience in the hope of helping others.

On Thursday, Bender will surrender himself at the Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp in central Pennsylvania, where he will begin to serve out a two-year sentence for his conviction on a charge of conspiring to sell oxycodone. He sat down for an exclusive interview with RiverheadLOCAL this weekend.

Former Southampton Town Councilman Brad Bender, who pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge last November, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and three years probation.

Former Southampton councilman Brad Bender is facing up the two-and-a-half years in state prison for his conviction on a charge of conspiracy to sell narcotics, if a federal district court judge approves a plea arrangement agreed to by prosecutors.

Two months after a Southampton councilman was arrested for his involvement in a narcotics scheme, Southampton residents will head to the polls tomorrow for a special election to decide who will fill his seat on the town board.

Southampton Councilman Brad Bender has stepped down. The Southampton Town Board will set the date for a special election during a meeting it has set for Monday, Nov. 30.

“Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant,” as Justice Louis Brandeis famously said, and that’s exactly what Southampton Town officials are hoping to...