East End Drug Task Force
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Cops: Early morning raids net four drug arrests; heroin/fentanyl, crack cocaine and a .38 handgun recovered from Hamilton Avenue house
Police executed search warrants at two Riverhead homes early Saturday morning in response to community complaints about drug dealing.
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East End Drug Task Force arrests alleged Riverhead drug dealer after community complaints: D.A. Sini
An investigation by the East End Drug Task Force, prompted by community complaints, led to the execution of a search warrant yesterday and the arrest of an alleged drug dealer, Suffolk D.A. Tim Sini said.
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Two Lake Grove residents charged in fatal overdose in Riverhead last month
A Lake Grove couple has been charged in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose in Riverhead late last month.
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Flanders man who allowed drug sales out of his Lincoln Street auto repair shop is sentenced to three years in prison
A Flanders man accused of allowing two other men to sell drugs out of his Riverhead auto repair shop, resulting in the death of a Riverhead man who overdosed on their fentanyl-laced heroin, has been sentenced in Suffolk County Criminal Court.
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Jamesport man sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on drug trafficking charges
Tramaine Brown was one of more than a dozen people charged after a year-long FBI investigation into drug trafficking in Riverhead area in 2018, resulting in early morning raids across town that November.
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Twenty-four arrested, including Flanders man, in major drug enforcement action Thursday
The drug ring was responsible for selling more than $1 million per year worth of heroin cut with fentanyl, as well as cocaine, Oxycodone pills and marijuana on and near the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, DA Sini said.
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Cops: Two facing drug charges after raid on Hinda Boulevard home
The arrests were the result of an investigation by the Riverhead Police Department and the East End Drug Task Force into neighborhood complaints about suspicious activities at 47 Hinda Boulevard in Riverhead, police said.
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Five face federal charges for alleged drug trafficking in Riverhead area
Five people were charged in federal court yesterday with trafficking heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine in the Riverhead area.
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DA Sini brings manslaughter charges in overdose death of Riverhead man
Three men accused of dealing heroin cut with fentanyl are facing multiple narcotics charges, with two of them charged with manslaughter in the overdose death of a Riverhead man in September.
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East End Drug Task Force charge four after investigation into neighborhood complaints of drug sales at Riverhead home
Police said they recovered a “significant quantity” of heroin, as well as crack cocaine, were recovered at 13 Oakland Drive North, Riverhead. Joshua Georges, 37, who lives at that address, is facing multiple charges.