Crime & Safety
'Known Drug Dealer' Caught Toting Guns In Centereach Bust: Police
A Ruger LCP .380-caliber pistol, a Burgo .22-caliber short revolver, fentanyl, methadone, and $100,000 was found, cops say.

CENTEREACH, NY — A known Port Jefferson Station drug dealer was caught toting guns and sliging his product while under surviellance in Centereach on Saturday, Suffolk police said.
Anti-Crime officers from the 6th Precinct had been watching Donald Goodwin, when they saw him passing drugs in a "hand-to-hand" transaction and then leave the location in a 2014 Infiniti, according to police.
The officers followed Goodwin, then ordered him to pull over to the side of Route 347, near Mark Tree Road, just after 3 p.m., said police, adding that when they searched him and the car, two handguns, including a Ruger LCP .380-caliber pistol and a Burgo .22-caliber short revolver, as well as over $100,000 in cash were found.
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The officers also found "a quantity of fentanyl and methadone," police said.
It is unclear exactly how much fentanyl and methadone was found during the bust.
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Goodwin, 31, was charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, as well as two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
He was additionally charged with one count of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, and second-degree obstructing governmental administration.
He was scheduled to be arraigned Sunday First District Court in Central Islip.
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