A Central Islip man will spend the next 18 years in prison for selling heroin and Xanax to a Brentwood man whose subsequent fatal overdose Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney described Wednesday as “needless.”
Jeffrey Sloan, 62, pleaded guilty in October to multiple felony narcotics charges that Suffolk County police had filed after following a trail that began with the investigation of the 25-year-old man’s fatal overdose in February at a Brentwood residence. Investigators at that time recovered a Xanax pill, a cellphone and nine glossy envelopes with a residue composed of various drugs, including cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and ketamine.
The cellphone revealed texts between the man and Sloan, Tierney’s office said. The man ordered 13 bags of heroin and a Xanax from Sloan for $140 and arranged for a sale at the 7-Eleven at Crooked Hill Road. Two days later he was dead from an overdose, according to police and prosecutors.
In a statement Wednesday, Tierney called the man’s death “needless” and Sloan’s sentence “a hard-won affirmation of justice.”
Sloan’s defense attorney, Adaline Arvelo, told Newsday in a text message late Wednesday that he “denies his actions caused a man to overdose. Nonetheless he took responsibility and hopes for closure.”
An autopsy revealed the man ingested cocaine, fentanyl, fentanyl-related synthetic opioids, ketamine and morphine. according to a news release from the district attorney’s office.
Security camera footage from the convenience store depicted the man withdrawing cash from an ATM and allegedly engaging “in what appears to be a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction with,” Sloan, the release said.
On Feb. 19, Suffolk police executed a search warrant for Sloan’s home, camper and three vehicles, prosecutors said. Investigators discovered more than 16 ounces of a combination of fentanyl and heroin, more than half an ounce of cocaine, more than 100 Xanax, oxycodone and other pills, three plastic bags with a mixture of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, ketamine and medetomidine, a legal substance in New York used to tranquilize large animals.
Police also retrieved several cellphones, a record of drug sales and various drug paraphernalia, including scales, gloves and masks.
On Oct. 22, Sloan pleaded guilty before Acting Supreme Court Justice Richard Horowitz in Riverhead to one count of first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Horowitz sentenced Sloan on Wednesday to 18 years in prison followed by 5 years of “post release supervision,” prosecutors said..
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