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LI man charged with having enough drugs to kill 3.5 million people, DA says
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Charles Lane
Published Oct 11, 2024
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A Long Island man has pleaded not guilty to charges he had what prosecutors say was enough illegal drugs to kill 3.5 million people in his home.
Remon Gibson, 43, appeared in Suffolk County court earlier this week on nine counts of drug trafficking, drug possession and child endangerment charges. He posted an $800,000 bond and will await trial outside of jail.
Prosecutors said law enforcement seized 15 pounds of fentanyl, 18 pounds of cocaine and a half-pound of xylazine from a Bellport, Long Island home where two children lived, Suffolk County prosecutors said Friday.
Gibson’s attorney George Duncan said Gibson maintains his innocence and that he “is not a trafficker of any kind. We look forward to defending the case as soon as we get all the discovery.”
District Attorney Ray Tierney said the amount of drugs recovered from Gibson was “staggering.”
“There was enough fentanyl here to kill every man, woman and child on Long Island,” he said.
Evidence seized in the case.
Courtesy, Suffolk County District Attorney
The highly addictive fentanyl has devastated neighborhoods across the region and country, killing a 1-year-old at a Bronx child care center in the Bronx last year. Three men pleaded guilty to those charges. In Brooklyn, two others recently pleaded guilty to selling the fentanyl that killed an advocate for transgender and sex worker issues.
According to Tierney, law enforcement officers searched Gibson’s home last month and found $80,000 in cash and drug production equipment, including a ledger and a kilo press that stamped the phrase “COVID-19”.
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