Couple Busted, Heroin Seized in Drug Raid at Wading River Home: Police

WADING RIVER, NY - A Wading River couple was nabbed after a drug bust at their home on Thursday, police said.

According to Riverhead police, the East End Drug Task Force conducted a search warrant at a home on Northside Road around 10 p.m.

The search warrant was secured after a sort term investigation prompted by multiple neighborhood complaints about high traffic and suspected drug sales activity in the area, police said.

The Riverhead Town Police COPE unit and Suffolk County Police emergency services and K-9 units assisted in serving the warrant, police said.

The EEDTF seized a quantity of heroin, marijuana, packaging materials and a scale, police said.

Daniel W. Gennaro, 25, and his wife, Samantha R. Cotroneo, 24, were both arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, intent to sell, a felony, unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and two counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, a misdemeanor, police said.