MANHASSET, NY\u2014 Three people were arrested after criminal possession of a controlled substance on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n
Nassau County police said while on routine patrol, officers observed a white 2007 Ford Expedition traveling westbound on Northern Boulevard failing to maintain their lane, at approximately 4:59 p.m.<\/p>\n
Officers conducted a vehicle and traffic law stop and during the investigation, they observed a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine in plain site, police said.<\/p>\n
According to NCPD, officers attempted to place the rear passenger, 24-year-old Diosmede Rodriguez Flores of Manhattan into custody when he became violent and combative, causing two officers to sustain injuries before placing him into custody.<\/p>\n
24-year-old Carmen Soto of the Bronx and 34-year-old Nairim Perez-Gonzalez of the Bronx both exited the car and fled the scene, but were located nearby and placed under arrest without incident, police said.<\/p>\n
The officers were transported to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment of their injuries, police said.<\/p>\n
Diosmede Rodriguez Flores was charged with three counts of third-degree possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of second-degree assault, and resisting arrest, police said.<\/p>\n
Carmen Soto was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, and second-degree obstructing governmental administration, police said.<\/p>\n
Nairim Perez-Gonzalez was charged with third-degree possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree obstructing governmental administration, and multiple VTL violations, police said.<\/p>\n
They will be arraigned on Thursday in Hempstead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHASSET, NY\u2014 Three people were arrested after criminal possession of a controlled substance on Wednesday, police said. Nassau…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-74610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610","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=74610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}