Crime & Safety

Woman Nabbed Selling Suboxone In McDonald's Parking Lot: Police

BREAKING: She also sold the pills to undercover officers on three other occasions, police said.

FLANDERS, NY — A woman was caught selling Suboxone to an undercover cop in the parking lot of McDonald's police said.

According to Southampton Town Police, on Wednesday, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office East End Drug Task Force arrested Jaclyn M. Risch, 32, of Medford, and charged her with third degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a felony.

Risch was charged in connection to the sale of Suboxone pills to an undercover officer in the McDonald’s parking lot in Flanders on a prior date, police said.
Risch also sold pills on three other occasions to an undercover officer during the course of the investigation; those sales took place in Riverhead and Brookhaven Towns, police said.

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Those additional charges, all felony third degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, are currently pending, police said.

She was arrested and processed at Southampton Town Police headquarters; Risch was arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court and remanded to the Suffolk County jail in lieu of $2,500 bail, police said.

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The East End Drug Task Force is a multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement unit funded by the office of Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota. The task force includes detectives, police officers and law enforcement personnel from the New York State Police, Suffolk County Police Department, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, Suffolk County Department of Probation, Southampton Town Police Department, Riverhead Police Department, East Hampton Town Police Department, Easthampton Village Police Department, Southampton Village Police Department, Sag Harbor Village Police Department, Southold Police Department and Suffolk County District Attorney investigators.

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