{"id":100066,"date":"2026-01-14T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:23:30","slug":"police-staten-island-man-dealt-cocaine-from-his-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100066\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Staten Island man dealt cocaine from his balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"W24NZ7OIXVARZH6U3R5ATCUGFI\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities allege that a 39-year-old man sold drugs in his home community of Tompkinsville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Q6QWLRRWCZCC7N7J26ZLC6ZPQA\">Carlos Gomez was apprehended by police on Jan. 6 at around 1:30 p.m. in the vicinity of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"120th Precinct \" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2RABBD5DD5GB3BAHGUVHS6OZBY.JPG\"  \/>The arrest occurred in the confines of the 120th Precinct. Shown is the precinct station house in St. George.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DBWKQIA74ND7HDIXLYEMJRMZHQ\">Officers found a round white pill of oxycodone marked \u201c230\u2033 in Gomez\u2019s right shoe, according to the criminal complaint, which was based on an investigation by Narcotics Borough Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4LWATNQZX5FDDPHWFVW5X4CZWM\">\u201cI have an oxy in my shoe,\u201d the complaint alleges the defendant told police. He allegedly added that someone known to him \u201chas a prescription for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EEAGHABBLJBYTNYIGSH4ZAF7TQ\">Gomez passed cocaine to customers from the balcony of his home on Victory Boulevard in October and November, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZM7OMARYCFH6HOMQRZ3MX2PMYA\">Gomez is accused of exchanging a green plastic capsule containing cocaine powder on one occasion and crack cocaine in a different transaction. Officers allege they recovered the stimulants from both buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VCWWTGHE4RDZPFPSHB6HYDEKMQ\">The defendant has been charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G6TIAU2WBFDU7LJQL3MDID3SE4\">Gomez has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has been released with non-monetary conditions. He is due back in Criminal Court in St. George on Feb. 24, according to public records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"P5PAYGACXNCSTHZRX34HUJTDWQ\">An attorney for the defendant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities allege that a 39-year-old man sold drugs in his home community of Tompkinsville.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-100066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}