Crime

Nassau police arrested two men and one woman on Aug. 7 for their alleged connection to a fatal overdose of a county resident that occurred in Baldwin on July 19.

Andy T. Salazar and Alia Salway, both 23, and of Rutland Road, Freeport, and Estiven Membreno, 18, of W. Centennial Avenue, Roosevelt, were arrested and through the subsequent investigation police said they found $14,278, 262 assorted oxycodone pills, 88 grams of mushrooms, 29 LSD tabs, 4.8 grams of cocaine, 20 acetaminophen and oxycodone pills, 54 alprazolam pills, 8 fluid ounces of promethazine with codeine, 40 THC edibles, 91 liquid THC cartridges, and two bottles of promethazine hydrochloride.

All three are charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and 13 counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in varying degrees. Salazar, Salway and Membreno were all issued summonses.

— Jeffrey Bessen

forth a few extra times just for good measure.

“We’re here today to send a very important message: The era of lawlessness does not exist here in Nassau County,” Blakeman said.

“We will not tolerate this nonsense occurring in Nassau County,” he added. “We’ve seen far too much of it, and we’re not going to tolerate it.”By JEF -

FREY NEGRIN