A Long Island man and his father face charges accusing them of operating a heroin ring with a distribution network that extended into Brooklyn.
Investigators arrested eight suspects and seized 19,000 envelopes of heroin packaged for street sales, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced on Sunday.
In addition to the heroin, the DA's Heroin Task Force, working with the state police, seized quantities of cocaine, methamphetamines, anabolic steroids, semiautomatic weapons and cash, Spota said.
Richard Bruno Jr., 26, of Holbrook, employed a crew of distributors and his father, Richard Bruno Sr., 59, stored much of the heroin in the attic of his Farmingville home, investigators said.
The distributors dealt heroin and cocaine in Westhampton, Selden, Centereach, Stony Brook and Babylon, police said.
Jonathon Rincon, 26, is charged with being the ring's Brooklyn dealer.
Bruno Jr., Rincon and Bryan Koppelman, 32, of Selden, were being held on $1.5 million cash bail. They are scheduled for arraignment on Monday in Riverhead.
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There was no indication that the suspects had obtained lawyers who could comment on the charges.
Spota plans to elaborate on the case at a news conference scheduled for Monday.
