{"id":367087,"date":"2026-10-07T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:56:44","slug":"albany-i-87-stop-leads-to-cocaine-charges-for-brooklyn-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367087\/","title":{"rendered":"Albany I-87 stop leads to cocaine charges for Brooklyn man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- State police said a Brooklyn man faces felony drug charges after troopers found more than 2,000 grams of suspected cocaine hidden in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sept. 30, New York State Police (NYSP) said troopers with the Troop G Community Stabilization Unit, with help from Troop T, arrested Kelvin L. Montana, 52, of Brooklyn. Police charged him with first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and a vehicle and traffic law violation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NYSP said troopers stopped a vehicle driven by Montana at about 1:09 p.m. on Interstate 87 Thruway in Albany for a vehicle and traffic law violation. The investigation, with help from K9 \u201cJ,\u201d found more than 2000 grams of a controlled substance in a concealed compartment of the vehicle that later field-tested positive for containing cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said Montana was taken to State Police Latham for processing. He was later arraigned in Albany City Court and remanded to the Albany County Correctional Facility without bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow NewsChannel 13 online and on air for the latest Capital Region news.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/i-87\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I-87<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/albany\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albany<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- State police said a Brooklyn man faces felony drug charges after troopers found more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4241,98,100,99,47981,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-367087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-albany","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-i-87","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367087","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=367087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}