Accused Scooter-Driving Drug Dealer In Custody After Arrest In Vernon

VERNON, CT — A suspected drug dealer who worked on a scooter and out of his home in Vernon despite being on probation is in custody on a $75,000 bond after a warrant arrest last week, police said.

Lucas DiTomasso is due for a second court appearance in the case on Sept. 1. He has been charged with operating a drug factory, subsequent offense for possessing a controlled substance, the sale of an amphetamine-type substance and the sale of a narcotic substance, according to an arrest report.

He was also charged with violating probation, a charge that carries a separate $20,000 bond, an arrest report shows. According to judicial system records, Ditommaso was sentenced in 2019 to five years in prison, suspended after six months, after an evidence tampering conviction.

According to a warrant, police received several tips a far back as May 2021 that Ditommaso was selling narcotics off a scooter and out of his Vernon residence.

Searches of his home and two "trash pulls" yielded evidence that included hundreds of pills, narcotics in powdered form, several types of drug packaging and paraphernalia, hundreds of dollars in cash and brass knuckles.

Police also collected evidence showing he advertised narcotics sales on social media platforms like Snapchat, Facebook and a Tik Tok video clearly showed pills in small plastic bags in the background, according to a warrant.

Ditommaso also had a history of going to area hospitals for drug overdoses, according to a warrant.