Westchester Insider: Westchester County Police: WCPD Recover Stolen Car, Seize Loaded Handgun and Narcotics.

 

COUNTY POLICE RECOVER STOLEN CAR, SEIZE LOADED HANDGUN AND NARCOTICS.

Trio arrested 12 minutes after vehicle was reported stolen.

 

Twelve minutes after a car was reported stolen in Yonkers, WCPD Patrol officers recovered it, took three persons into custody, seized a loaded handgun and confiscated a quantity of illegal narcotics packaged for sale.

 

The incident unfolded at 8:05 p.m. last night when Yonkers Police reported that a 2009 Acura MDX had just been stolen on Tuckahoe Road. A short time later, detectives in the Real Time Crime intelligence center at County Police headquarters determined that the stolen car was now traveling north on the Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant.

 

A County Police sergeant and two Patrol officers located the vehicle at Pleasantville Road and made a traffic stop at 8:17 p.m. just south of the Route 100/Millwood exit. A loaded .32-caliber handgun was seized along with 10 glassine envelopes of heroin, six small bundles of crack cocaine and 84 pills (Xanax, Ecstasy and Oxycodone.)

 

The driver, Erik Flakes, 19, of Newburgh, was charged with Criminal Possession of a Weapon 2^nd Degree and Criminal Possession of Stolen Property 4^th Degree, felonies; Austin Raymond, 19, of Port Jervis was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 3^rd Degree (Intent to Sell) and Criminal Possession of Property 4^th Degree, felonies.

 

They were held for arraignment today in New Castle Town Court.

 

The third person in the vehicle, a 16-year-old boy, was charged as a juvenile offender and released to his mother pending a future appearance in Westchester County Family Court.