Prosecutors said Bryan made more than $75,000 in six months of drug sales. One man in particular, Ian Sharkey, bought between 140 and 180 envelopes full of fentanyl at a time from Bryan, making purchases every two-to-three days over the course of the investigation with all of the envelopes bearing the green \u201cBruce Banner\u201d stamp, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Bryan was arrested the day after police searched his home, on July 17, 2026, prosecutors said. Duchnowski was arrested on July 20 while Sharkey, Keana Bryan and Loheide were all arrested on July 21, prosecutors said. Giunta, prosecutors said, was arrested on June 24. <\/p>\n
Bryan was arraigned Sept. 1 and charged with two counts of operating as a major trafficker, one count of second-degree conspiracy, one count of fourth-degree conspiracy, one count of fifth-degree conspiracy, one count of first-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, 23 counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, and 27 counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors said. Bryan has pleaded not guilty to all charges, is due back in court on Oct. 6 and could face up to 25 years in jail if he is convicted, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
As for Keana, prosecutors said the 43-year-old was arraigned Sept. 4 and pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree conspiracy, fourth-degree conspiracy, fifth-degree conspiracy, first-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, seven counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and eight counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors said. If found guilty, she could face up to 25 years in prison as well, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Sharkey was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree conspiracy and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors said, to all of which he has pleaded not guilty. He is due back in court on Sept. 11 and could face nine years in prison if found guilty, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors said Bryan made more than $75,000 in six months of drug sales. One man in particular, Ian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-342189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342189","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=342189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}