{"id":58558,"date":"2025-12-02T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:37:19","slug":"1k-glassines-of-cocaine-cut-with-fentanyl-will-land-staten-island-man-in-prison-d-a-mcmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58558\/","title":{"rendered":"1K glassines of cocaine cut with fentanyl will land Staten Island man in prison: D.A. McMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QADE3AU3Y5AV3CFQIVSNPXAMB4\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A New Brighton man accused of possessing a dangerous cocktail of cocaine and fentanyl on Staten Island is headed to prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DYAGBZQO6RFGFLDBQAODN5LUQQ\">Abraham Tarr, 31, of Richmond Terrace, pleaded guilty Nov. 25 in state Supreme Court, St. George, to second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in connection with his 2024 arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D4BWKOIAPFCVLJSRXO53NYOWNQ\">In exchange for his plea, he is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 22 by Justice Mario F. Mattei to eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision, according to a press release sent out Friday by District Attorney Michael E. McMahon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NBZCHFHPVJHB3DDLZEYH5XBK6I\">The defendant also will be sentenced to an additional two to four years of incarceration, after he violated federal probation with this latest conviction, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HKDJRI2GKZC2ZPGYTMVVQRLM2U\">His attorney, a public defender with the Legal Aid Society, did not return a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Early morning raid on Jersey Street<img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Richmond Terrace apartments\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DQFHBDEQCJD4HA3PTIYUK2MBHU.png\"  \/>Members of the NYPD carried out a drug raid at an apartment in the Richmond Terrace apartments in New Brighton on the morning of Nov. 27, 2024.(Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CW4CTOTQJ5EQPLM4BVG2O22JXM\">The defendant was arrested on the morning of Nov. 27, 2024, after members of the NYPD carried out a raid at an apartment where he was staying in the Richmond Terrace complex on Jersey Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5GBUNQ5TAZCXLJWA42F2IJCQBA\">They seized approximately 1,000 glassines containing a fentanyl and cocaine mixture, in addition to a large quantity of cocaine, scales, packaging materials and a large sum of U.S. currency, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LJUMIG4ZPBCI5EVHMVWW2D7BCY\">\u201cResponsible for the death of hundreds of Staten Islanders in recent years, fentanyl has no place in our communities&#8230;\u201d said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon in a statement Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PYX4O3TAG5G5HFS4KBFP6JFGCI\">Dangerous combinations of fentanyl mixed with cocaine, as well as other narcotics, are becoming more common in the drug supply and are causing overdoses on Staten Island, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/2025\/11\/deadly-drug-mashups-new-mixes-the-latest-threat-in-overdose-crisis-on-staten-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/2025\/11\/deadly-drug-mashups-new-mixes-the-latest-threat-in-overdose-crisis-on-staten-island.html\">borough\u2019s Fentanyl and Overdose Task Force warned last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CTC2DQ5PGJAIHETOWFADEQA7WM\">In his statement Friday, McMahon went on to thank members of the NYPD, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Edvin and \u201cthe men and women of RCDA\u2019s Narcotics Investigations Bureau.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A New Brighton man accused of possessing a dangerous cocktail of cocaine and fentanyl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-58558","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\/58558","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=58558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}