Brewster Man Wanted by Immigration Picked up on Drug Charges

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest, on drug charges, of a Brewster resident for whom a deportation warrant had been issued.

At 3:10 a.m. Oct. 29, deputies assigned to the Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Enforcement Unit were on patrol on North Main Street in Brewster when they observed a man who they knew to be the suspect in an ongoing narcotics sales investigation by other members of the NEU. They detained him.

A criminal history check of the man indicated that he was the subject of an active Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation warrant. They allege he was also, at the time, in possession of a quantity of powdered cocaine.

Vinicio Quezada, 37, of Bridge Lane, Brewster was arrested and charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 7 th Degree, a misdemeanor. He was arraigned in the Town of Southeast Justice Court on behalf of the Village of Brewster and remanded to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000 bail and the ICE detainer.

More charges stemming from an investigation of cocaine sales that began in the summer of 2015 were lodged with the court following the arraignment, police said.

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