STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and thousands of dollars were seized during the predawn raid of an apartment in Stapleton, police said.<\/p>\n
Paul Moore, 38, was arrested after officers armed with a search warrant raided his apartment on Warren Street inside the Stapleton Houses on Jan. 8 at about 6 a.m., according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Officers allege they recovered drugs and paraphernalia in a bedroom. Glassine envelopes containing heroin and cocaine were found, along with 41 Ecstasy pills, the complaint alleges. <\/p>\n
Some of the drugs were found in a cabinet, while cash and glassine envelopes of heroin were discovered in a safe inside a closet in the front hallway, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers counted over $4,500 in cash in the apartment, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
Confiscated during the raid were six cell phones and a scale tainted with cocaine residue, police said.<\/p>\n
Moore has been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has been released on his own recognizance. He is due back in Criminal Court in St. George on March 11, according to public records.<\/p>\n
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 Heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy and thousands of dollars were seized during the predawn raid of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-103234","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\/103234","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=103234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}