'Bundle' Of Heroin Found In Vehicle, 3 Arrested: Greenwich Police

GREENWICH, CT — Three men were arrested Tuesday night in central Greenwich after a "bundle" of heroin was found in their vehicle, police said. Officers stopped the vehicle in the area of Arch Street and Horseneck Lane around 8 p.m. and arrested one of the passengers, 28-year-old Charlee Rodriguez of Greenwich, for whom police held an active arrest warrant, according to a statement.

The warrant stemmed a larceny incident in which Rodriguez stole iPhones from a Greenwich Avenue store on Oct. 3, 2019, police said.

After further investigation, officers found another one of the passengers, 26-year-old Jeffrey Ricci of Rye Brook, N.Y., was in possession of a "bundle" of suspected heroin, as well as syringes, approximately three individual bags of suspected heroin and a small amount of marijuana, police said.

Police said Rodriguez and another passenger, 27-year-old Kasey Hernandez of Greenwich, told officers they and the other passengers had recently purchased the heroin in the Bronx, N.Y., for three of them to share.

All three men were charged with possession of narcotics. Ricci was additionally charged with possession of less than a half ounce of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Rodriguez was also charged on the warrant with fifth-degree larceny.