Passenger In Car Stopped On Thruway Gets 3 Years In Prison For Drug Possession

A Staten Island resident who was a passenger in a car stopped by State Police on the New York State Thruway in 2010 has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegal possession of prescriptions drugs and heroin.

Shaheim Bowman, 26, of 139 Brabant St., Staten Island, was sentenced Tuesday in Rockland County Court in New City by Judge William K. Nelson, who also ordered Bowman serve three years on post-release supervision after getting out of prison.

said that on Feb. 20, 2010, state troopers stopped a vehicle traveling on the Thruway for traffic violations. After an investigation and search of the passenger, Bowman, troopers found 285 Percoset pills and 78 Oxycontin pills. Zugibe  said Bowman was taken to the State Police barracks in Tarrytown, where troopers found 22 glassine envelopes containing heroin in the back seat of the police cruiser.

Throughout the investigation and subsequent arrest, Zugibe said Bowman the attempted to conceal his identity to the troopers by saying that his name was Samuel Bowman, who is Bowman’s older brother.

Bowman pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.