East End Drug Task Force

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.

A Lake Grove couple has been charged in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose in Riverhead late last month.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Five people were charged in federal court yesterday with trafficking heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine in the Riverhead area.

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.

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.

A Riverhead man was arrested on narcotics charges today as a result of an investigation by the East End Drug Task Force, according to Riverhead Town Police.