Police bust alleged pill and cocaine dealers in Oxford
OXFORD – Following a joint investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and Oxford Police Department, officers carried out a search at a suspected drug dealer’s home in the village and removed a number of prescription narcotics last week.
Police arrested 39-year-old Kara L. Conklin and 42-year-old John Serrano at their 35 Greene St. address on May 20.
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb reported both defendants were charged with fourth degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a Class C felony, for having 31 pills of Percocet.
Cobb said investigators believed the couple had been selling illegal substances from their residence for the last six months.
Oxford Police Chief Richard Nolan said the agencies were carrying out a months-long investigation into local drug activity which led officers to the Greene Street residence.
Nolan said police seized “a number of narcotic drugs” including the Percocet pills, a prescription painkiller commonly referred to as “Oxycodone.”
Chenango County Treatment Court Coordinator James Everard explained the pills belong to a group of drugs classified as opiates, which includes other prescription drugs such as OxyContin and morphine and narcotics like heroin and opium. The drugs essentially share the same active ingredient harvested from opium poppy plants that is refined to varying degrees and concentrated depending on the purity of the specific street drug or the potency of the prescription.
“Percocet is basically just an opiate with Tylenol added into it,” he explained.
The couple was also charged with a number of non-felony crimes, including seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for allegedly having a small quantity of cocaine seized at the residence. Serrano was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana. Police retrieved two digital scales and several plastic bags believed to be used in the sale of narcotics from the residence and both defendants were charged with criminal use of drug paraphernalia.
Cobb said police found some of the substances in areas accessible to the couple’s four children, ages one to 12 years, and charged them with endangering the welfare of a child.
Cobb said neither Conklin or Serrano were employed and were not married, but lived together at the residence.
“Neither defendants had a prescription and were getting their pills from an illicit source,” he said. Cobb said on the street, the prescription pills sell from between $10 and 20 a piece.
Both defendants were arraigned in Town of Oxford Court and remanded to the Chenango County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 cash bail.
Police arrested 39-year-old Kara L. Conklin and 42-year-old John Serrano at their 35 Greene St. address on May 20.
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb reported both defendants were charged with fourth degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a Class C felony, for having 31 pills of Percocet.
Cobb said investigators believed the couple had been selling illegal substances from their residence for the last six months.
Oxford Police Chief Richard Nolan said the agencies were carrying out a months-long investigation into local drug activity which led officers to the Greene Street residence.
Nolan said police seized “a number of narcotic drugs” including the Percocet pills, a prescription painkiller commonly referred to as “Oxycodone.”
Chenango County Treatment Court Coordinator James Everard explained the pills belong to a group of drugs classified as opiates, which includes other prescription drugs such as OxyContin and morphine and narcotics like heroin and opium. The drugs essentially share the same active ingredient harvested from opium poppy plants that is refined to varying degrees and concentrated depending on the purity of the specific street drug or the potency of the prescription.
“Percocet is basically just an opiate with Tylenol added into it,” he explained.
The couple was also charged with a number of non-felony crimes, including seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for allegedly having a small quantity of cocaine seized at the residence. Serrano was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana. Police retrieved two digital scales and several plastic bags believed to be used in the sale of narcotics from the residence and both defendants were charged with criminal use of drug paraphernalia.
Cobb said police found some of the substances in areas accessible to the couple’s four children, ages one to 12 years, and charged them with endangering the welfare of a child.
Cobb said neither Conklin or Serrano were employed and were not married, but lived together at the residence.
“Neither defendants had a prescription and were getting their pills from an illicit source,” he said. Cobb said on the street, the prescription pills sell from between $10 and 20 a piece.
Both defendants were arraigned in Town of Oxford Court and remanded to the Chenango County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 cash bail.
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