Twenty-one patrons of Neptune Beach Club in Hampton Bays face drug charges filed by Southampton Town Police over Memorial Day weekend, according to authorities.
Twenty of the suspects were observed ingesting drugs or found to be in possession of drugs in the parking lot of the Dune Road beach club or the adjacent Tiana Beach parking lot over the holiday weekend, police said Tuesday morning. The drugs included cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, marijuana and gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a depressant that is commonly referred to as GHB.
One additional suspect, Victoria Fogal, 22, of New Rochelle, was charged with selling ecstasy inside the establishment. She was charged with fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both felonies, according to police.
In addition, a 22-year-old Coram man was observed defecating on the dunes of Tiana Beach and cited for public urination, a violation, police said.
Charges for the remaining 20 suspects range from third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, to unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
The bulk of the arrests were made on Monday, but arrests were also made throughout Saturday and Sunday, according to Sergeant James Kiernan, who heads the Southampton Town Police Street Crimes Unit. A team of undercover officers spent the weekend trying to buy drugs at the club, Sgt. Kiernan said. While Ms. Fogal was the only suspect to actually sell a controlled substance to an undercover officer, authorities observed the rest of the suspects using drugs outside the club, Sgt. Kiernan said.
Sgt. Kiernan declined to say exactly how many undercover officers were part of the investigation, but said it was fewer than 10.
One suspect, Valerie C. O’Connell, 22, of Staten Island, was arrested by uniformed officers rather than undercover officers, Sgt. Kiernan said. On one evening over the holiday weekend, police observed Ms. O’Connell leave the oceanfront club, climb over the dunes and stumble into the ocean, Sgt. Kiernan said.
After officers pulled her out, they found her to be in possession of ecstasy and charged her with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, police said.
Those suspects who were charged with felonies were arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court on Tuesday, Sgt. Kiernan said. He said the rest will likely be arraigned on June 23. Most of the 20 suspects made bail following their arrests, he said.
The following individuals face felony drug charges after the weekend bust: Howard O. Patino, 23, of Corona; and Jefferson Barragan-Restrepo, 25, of Elmhurst.
The following individuals are facing misdemeanor drug charges: Michael E. Rodriguez, 38, of Melville; Matthew P. Bruce, 34, of Huntington Station; Hassena Haider, 31, of Lindenhurst; Bilal J. Parvez, 27, of Jacksonville, Florida; Francisco F. Alcivar, 31, of Woodhaven; Grady B. Pinillos, 21, of East Hampton; Edward Yagudaev, 46, of Brooklyn; Yekaterina Fedotkina, 30, of Brooklyn; Dean Henrys, 27, of Corona; Gregory C. Depetro, 19, of Staten Island; Mark H. Smith, 25, of Ronkonkoma; Brianne M. Flood, 22, of Manhattan; Johnathan Lodato, 25, of East Quogue; and Kaliel DeSilva, 25, of Astoria. Another man from Astoria was charged with drug possession but the charges were reduced under the terms of a plea arrangement in October.
A 26-year-old Levittown woman and a 24-year-old Connecticut woman were cited for marijuana violations.
For what? They busted a bunch of USERS who aren't even on the structure of the drug distribution hierarchy at the lowest level. Only one DEALER was arrested and its 100 to 1 the sale was inconsequential.
Stop the egoistical nonsense. Let the state cops deal with drug use. They know where to ...more put their resources. And its not into operations that trumpet "21" drug arrests when the drug arrests are worthless in curtailing drug use. (Remember that DA Spota made a similar attention-grabbing headline of street-level DEALERS. That, also, was PR BS but at least they were DEALERS, of the lowest level.)
It's foolish scheduling of resources like that makes the STPD SO-OOO expensive. And now, to aid DA Spota on his crackdown on minimum wage drug dealers, ATH has promised to hire two more cops.
Will this stupidity never end?
How do YOU know how much it costs and what?? because it is "only" drugs it's ok to break the law...Oh I only wrecked my car while I was driving under the influence so I should not be arrested...oh I only ran some little kid over...oh I only raped a girl after giving her GHB (AKA the date rape drug), I only stole, or committed some other random crime after my drug buying and using so I should not be arrested....
Wake up...
Hopefully with all the ...more arrests the dump will be shut down!
And of course you have reported your sightings to the proper authorities.
LOL @ the dune crapper!
Kids, get your price up front , THE CLUBS SHOULD GET ...more INVOLVED, and STOP this illegal activity!
As far as the Dune Dooty-er: DUDE! Lucky they don't have a poop law!Next time bring a BAG, man.
So many of the cab drivers that come out do not have a permit to be working the area which is also a problem. They treat us all like we're summer city people and that we all have the money to pay any fare they want. They also have no idea where anything is. I tried giving the driver simple directions to get me to my address in WHB right off of Montauk Hwy and he had to pull over 2 blocks from my street to finally put it in his GPS, all the while yelling at me that I told him the wrong directions!!
Are the fares regulated at all? You don't want these kids driving autos.
It is just a waste of taxpayers money. No wonder you can't get anyone to respond to calls, they are all at Neptunes.
I do hope that the place gets charges for all of this policy private service!!!!!!
I don't smoke it. I know people who do and realize it is much stronger then in my day ... but hey if booze is legal ....