Cops Say Man Traveled From the Bronx to Southeast to Sell Heroin

SOUTHEAST, NY — Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Bronx man on narcotics possession charges.

Members of the Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU) were conducting ongoing checks of reported suspicious activity at a Town of Southeast service station at 8 p.m. Sept. 24 when they encountered a man in the side parking area who was acting in an unusual manner.

A field interview with the man, and subsequent investigation, revealed that he was there for the purpose of selling narcotics, police said.

He was found to have a package secreted on his person which contained 40 baggies of heroin and 34 Alprazolam pills. In addition, he possessed $600.00 in cash and several cellular telephones.

The subject, identified as Jeffery Gomez, 27, of Grand Avenue, Bronx, New York, was arrested and charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree and with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Fifth Degree, felonies. He was arraigned before Town of Southeast Justice Gregory Folchetti and committed to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $15,000 cash bail pending a future court appearance.

If found guilty of the most serious felony charge, Gomez could face up to 25 years in a New York State Correctional Facility and a fine of up to $30,000.

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