$80K worth of drugs trafficked into Queens

A Long Island man was convicted of drug trafficking after a four-week jury trial and faces up to 30 years in prison for transporting fentanyl with a street value of $80,000 from Suffolk to Queens, according to the office of District Attorney Melinda Katz.

Dennis Carrol, 34, of Evergreen Road in Flanders, was found guilty on Monday of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, said prosecutors.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents conducted a car stop of Carrol’s vehicle as he drove through the intersection of Hillside Avenue and 188th Street in Hollis, and the search revealed two plastic bags with roughly 2 kilograms of fentanyl in the trunk of his car, said Katz’s Office. The DA’s Major Narcotics Unit of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, in conjunction with the DEA’s New York Division, had launched an investigation into Carrol’s alleged involvement in narcotics trafficking earlier that month.

The DEA says that 1 kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people and just 2 milligrams is considered a lethal dose.

“Fentanyl is an extraordinarily dangerous drug that has taken the lives of thousands of New Yorkers,” Katz said in a statement. “This defendant trafficked 2 kilograms of this deadly poison into Queens, and thanks to an extraordinary partnership between my office and the Drug Enforcement Administration we were able to seize these drugs before anyone else was harmed. We will continue our relentless efforts to target those who transport and sell deadly narcotics in our neighborhoods.”

Carroll is being held at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island and will be sentenced on April 16.