STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A New Brighton man accused of possessing a dangerous cocktail of cocaine and fentanyl on Staten Island is headed to prison.
Abraham Tarr, 31, of Richmond Terrace, pleaded guilty Nov. 25 in state Supreme Court, St. George, to second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in connection with his 2024 arrest.
In exchange for his plea, he is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 22 by Justice Mario F. Mattei to eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision, according to a press release sent out Friday by District Attorney Michael E. McMahon.
The defendant also will be sentenced to an additional two to four years of incarceration, after he violated federal probation with this latest conviction, officials said.
His attorney, a public defender with the Legal Aid Society, did not return a request for comment.
Early morning raid on Jersey Street
Members of the NYPD carried out a drug raid at an apartment in the Richmond Terrace apartments in New Brighton on the morning of Nov. 27, 2024.(Google Maps)
The defendant was arrested on the morning of Nov. 27, 2024, after members of the NYPD carried out a raid at an apartment where he was staying in the Richmond Terrace complex on Jersey Street.
They seized approximately 1,000 glassines containing a fentanyl and cocaine mixture, in addition to a large quantity of cocaine, scales, packaging materials and a large sum of U.S. currency, prosecutors said.
“Responsible for the death of hundreds of Staten Islanders in recent years, fentanyl has no place in our communities…” said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon in a statement Friday.
Dangerous combinations of fentanyl mixed with cocaine, as well as other narcotics, are becoming more common in the drug supply and are causing overdoses on Staten Island, the borough’s Fentanyl and Overdose Task Force warned last month.
In his statement Friday, McMahon went on to thank members of the NYPD, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Edvin and “the men and women of RCDA’s Narcotics Investigations Bureau.”