{"id":252457,"date":"2026-06-02T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:12:16","slug":"new-york-man-charged-with-using-13-year-old-daughter-in-drug-sale-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252457\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man charged with using 13-year-old daughter in drug sale scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FREEPORT, N.Y. &#8212; A New York man is due in court Tuesday after allegedly using his 13-year-old daughter to sell drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nassau County police say Julio Enmanuel Pena, 39 of Freeport, arranged to sell cocaine to a customer and had his 13-year-old daughter complete the transaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After an investigation, Pena was arrested at his home at 12:40 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Additional substances believed to be cocaine were recovered during the arrest, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pena is charged with three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, third degree; two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, third degree; conspiracy, third degree; use of a child to commit a controlled substance offense; and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He is set to be arraigned Tuesday in First District Court in Hempstead.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREEPORT, N.Y. &#8212; A New York man is due in court Tuesday after allegedly using his 13-year-old daughter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98544,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-252457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-98544","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252457","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=252457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}