Crime & Safety
Drug Task Force Busts Alleged Heroin Dealer
Second drug task force arrest in less than a month puts Hampton Bays man behind bars.
A Hampton Bays man was arrested Tuesday for reportedly selling heroin, following a six-month investigation by the East End Drug Task Force.
According to Southampton Town police, a search warrant was executed at the Penny Lane home of 46-year-old Kenneth Moses, and he and another woman were arrested there.
Moses was charged with two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, as well as two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, all felonies. Police said Moses sold heroin dating back to late January of this year.
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A 40-year-old female was also arrested on a misdemeanor charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, as well as unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Moses was remanded to Suffolk County Correctional Facility on Friday, and is due back in court on Thursday.
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Last Tuesday’s arrest follows another recent arrest by the East End Drug Task Force; a man who has been arrested over 50 times since the early 1990s was arrested in late June on charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. Police claim Joseph Coffey — who remains hospitalized after fleeing police and getting in a car crash in May — sold heroin at Longview Resort Motel in Shinnecock Hills in late February.
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