WESTCHESTER COUNTY POLICE SEIZE TWO KILOS OF FENTANYL DURING TRAFFIC STOP.
Connecticut Man Facing Felony Drug Charge.
(Hawthorne, NY) – Westchester County Police arrested a Connecticut man on a felony drug charge and seized more than two kilos of fentanyl during a traffic stop earlier this week.
Orlando Garcia, 42, of Wolcott Street, Waterbury, Conn, was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st Degree following a traffic stop Wednesday on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Mount Pleasant. He was also charged with Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Vehicle 3rd Degree, a misdemeanor.
The incident began shortly after 5 p.m. when Garcia was stopped for traffic violations as he drove southbound on the Saw Mill near County Police headquarters in Hawthorne. Garcia was taken into custody when a computer check revealed that his license was suspended and that he had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court to answer a charge of Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs, a misdemeanor.
During subsequent investigation, including the use of narcotics detection canine Philly, officers located a sealed cardboard box in the vehicle containing 4.3 pounds of a substance believed to be fentanyl.
Garcia was arraigned in Mount Pleasant Town Court and remanded to the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla.
