Crime & Safety

Cops: Man Sold Heroin to Undercover Cops in Levittown

Bellerose man charged after he was caught with assorted pills, cocaine, Ketamine.

A Queens man faces possession charges after he sold heroin to undercover cops and was found with multiple other drugs, reported Nassau County Police.

Narcotics/Vice Bureau said Wasif Hamid, 23, of Bellerose, sold heroin to undercover agents on three separate occasions.

When cops took him into custody at 12:35 a.m. Sunday, they found him with more heroin, more than half an ounce of cocaine, and two vials of Ketamine. He also had 688 wax paper envelopes and a number of assorted pills.

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Hamid was charged with seven counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and three counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance. He will be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Hempstead.

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