Narcotics Officers Earn Award Following Drug Investigations

Following three major drug arrests in March, members of the Greenwich Police Department’s Narcotics Section have received the department’s Officer of the Month award.

The officers, who are not being identified by the department for security reasons, have received the award for their involvement in three major narcotics investigations in March.

The officers were cited for “dedication to duty” which included working “tirelessly performing surveillance, developing operational plans, completing search warrants and executing arrest warrants.”

The section is credited with making “give arrests on an array of drug charges; one of the suspects being a rising mid-level dealer from New York and another arrest for a suspect implicated in the near-death heroin overdose of a Greenwich resident.”

In one arrest, police arrested a New York man and a Greenwich woman on multiple drug charges following a surveillance operation near the Hamilton Avenue School in which dozens of bags of heroin and cocaine were seized.

Police said the arrests results in the seizure of “sizable amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and several highly abused opiate-based pharmaceutical pills.”

In its announcement, the department also said, “The Narcotics Section’s diligence … had a positive impact on local residents and send a message to those engaged in this destructive activity that the Greenwich Police Department will not stand idly by.”

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