{"id":221822,"date":"2026-05-06T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:36:35","slug":"manhattan-man-faces-felony-drug-charges-after-community-complaints-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221822\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man faces felony drug charges after community complaints, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Community complaints about suspected drug activity near 400 Central Ave. led Albany County sheriff\u2019s investigators to arrest a Manhattan man on felony drug possession charges, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple Sr. reported that members of the Sheriff\u2019s Community Oriented Policing Effort (SCOPE) Unit conducted a narcotics investigation in the area at about 3:46 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, 2026, after receiving several complaints from the community.<\/p>\n

As a result of the investigation, authorities said 34-year-old Hakeem Bradley was found in possession of 24 individual packages containing crack cocaine, weighing about 20.5 grams. The narcotics were packaged in a manner consistent with distribution, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan man faces felony drug charges after community complaints (ALBANY COUNTY SHERIFF\u2019S OFFICE)<\/p>\n

Bradley was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony; one count of tampering with physical evidence, a class E felony; one count of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor; and one count of resisting arrest, a class A misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

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Bradley is expected to be arraigned in Albany City Criminal Court on May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Community complaints about suspected drug activity near 400 Central Ave. led Albany County sheriff\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-221822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221822","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=221822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}