Crime & Safety

Man Caught Dealing Crack Cocaine Out Of His Home: Cops

Officers found crack cocaine, marijuana, a drug scale, brass knuckles, and more than $6,700 cash at the man's home, police say.

(Southampton Town Police Department.)

RIVERSIDE, NY — A Riverside man was using his home to deal crack cocaine, police said.

According to Southampton Town Police, Moses Bullock, 46, of Vail Ave. in Riverside was arrested Friday after an extensive investigation; Southampton Town Police's community response unit and detective division, along with the New York State Police Department's K-9 unit, executed a search warrant early Friday morning at Bullock’s home, police said.

Evidence recovered included a quantity of crack cocaine, a quantity of marijuana, a drug scale, brass knuckles, and more than $6,700 in cash, police said.

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Bullock was home at the time the search warrant was executed, police said. He was arrested, taken into custody and charged with third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony; third degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony; two counts of seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor; second degree criminally using drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor; and second degree unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, police said.

Bullock was arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court Friday afternoon, where he was remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility, police said.

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Anyone with information on the ongoing investigation is asked to contact the Southampton Town Police Department's detective division at 631-702-2230.

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