Feds charge MTA officer from Middletown

Leonard Sparks Times Herald-Record

Published Friday January 23, 2015 at 8:31 pm

Updated Friday January 23, 2015 at 11:24 pm

NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors charged a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officer from Middletown with using UPS store mailboxes in Newburgh and New Windsor to receive kilogram shipments of a psychedelic drug similar to ecstasy from China.

Homeland Security officers arrested Bey Dominick, 43, on Tuesday at a New Windsor UPS store, where he signed for a package that was supposed to contain a kilogram of Ethylone, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Dominick, an officer with the MTA’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, carried his MTA badge and a gun at the time of the arrest, prosecutors said. He faces a federal narcotics conspiracy charge.

The investigation began in October when customs officers at John F. Kennedy Airport intercepted a package containing Ethylone. It was addressed to “Fisher Scientific Inc.” and listed a mailbox in a UPS store at 610 Broadway in Newburgh, according to the complaint.

Dominick is accused of using phony identification to rent boxes under the name “Ali K. Smith” at the Newburgh store and at a UPS store at 367 Windsor Highway in New Windsor.

Dominick received 17 parcels from China at the New Windsor mailbox, which had been registered to a business called “Chempack Industries,” prosecutors said. He also wired $29,300 to Chinese banks between Oct. 2013 and August 2014, prosecutors said.

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