Crime & Safety
Port Chester Heroin Deal Yields Felony Drug Arrest of City Man
Arrest information is supplied by the Port Chester Police Department. It does not indicate convictions.
Port Chester police on Thursday arrested a 35-year-old city man on felony drug charges following a heroin sale in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on Route 1.
Damian James (pictured), of 8 Palace Place, was arrested by warrant at 12:56 p.m. and charged with two counts each of third-degree criminal possession of controlled substance and third-degree sale of a controlled substance.
Three days earlier, on Nov. 4, detectives parked near McDonald’s at 321 Boston Post Road, observed a man walk up to a pickup truck occupied by a man and woman, and complete a hand-to-hand transaction.
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After it was over, police caught up with the buyer’s vehicle as well as the pickup, and arrested two men on the misdemeanor charge of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Lt. James Ladeairous identifed the buyer as 31-year-old Joseph Imbesi of Port Chester, and the man in the pickup as Gregory Letendre, 27, of Stamford.
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Following the Nov. 4 arrests, police ascertained the identify of the dealer—James—and obtained the warrant for his arrest, Ladeairous said.
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