Crime & Safety
Four Alleged Heroin Dealers Arrested in Nassau
BREAKING: Police recovered hundreds of bags of heroin and thousands of dollars.

Police have arrested four men for dealing heroin in Nassau County, Nassau Police said Sunday.
According to detectives, Daniel Cymerys, 30, of Poppy Street in East Meadow, and Raymond Budney, 33, of Bedford Avenue in Merrick, allegedly agreed to sell heroin on several different dates in September. Nassau/Suffolk Heroin Task Force detectives, along with officers from the Bureau of Special Operations, arrested the two on Sept. 27 in Merrick.
Cymerys was found to be in possession of six bags of alleged heroin at the time of his arrest, police said. Budney agreed to a search of his room, where detectives recovered $16,480 in cash along with 305 wax paper bags containing a powdery substance believed to heroin, police said.
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Later that same day, Nassau police arrested two Merrick men, Kyle Gleason, 32, of Riverside Avenue, and Colin Poore, 34, of Reid Avenue. Both men allegedly agreed to sell heroin in Bellmore. A small, clear plastic Ziploc bag containing four white round pills imprinted ASC 116, believed to be methadone hydrochloride 10 mg, and $1,368 in cash was recovered in Gleason's vehicle, police said.
Cymerys and Budney are each charged with three counts of third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and three counts of third degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Budney was also charged with third degree criminal possession of controlled substance.
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Gleason and Poore are each charged with third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.
They were all arraigned on Sept. 28 at First District Court in Hempstead.
Photos/Nassau County Police Department/(clockwise from top left) Raymond Budney, Daniel Cymerys, Colin Poore and Kyle Gleason
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