Doctor Was Smoking Crystal Meth In His Car: Nassau Police

A doctor was arrested on Sunday after police say officers saw him smoking a pipe in his car and then found multiple different drugs in the vehicle.

According to police, officers saw Thomas Boes, 42, of New Hyde Park, sitting in his car behind an office building at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Westbury holding a glass pipe to his mouth. When the officers approached the car, police say Boes tried to hide the pipe and an orange pill bottle that contained what police believe to be crystal meth.

Police say that Boes was in possession of several pill bottles containing:

• 228 white round pills believed to be methadone hydrochloride
• 31 small round white pills believed zolpiderm tartrate
• 29 orange oval pills believed to be amphetamine and dextroamphetamine
• 18 round orange pills believed to be dextroamphetamine
• 11 yellow plastic capsule pills believed to be temazepam
• 8 green rectangular pills believed to be Xanax
• 6 round white pills believed to be zolpiderm tartrate
• 2 clear packages containing patches believed to be fentanyl transdermal system

Boes, who is a psychiatrist and neurologist at the NYU Langone Preston Robert Tisch Center for Men's Health in Manhattan, was charged with 10 counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday in First District Court in Hempstead.

“In view of the allegations made against Dr. Thomas Boes, he has been suspended without pay, and we will be following the legal proceedings,” an NYU spokesperson told Patch.