PEEKSKILL RESIDENT SENTENCED FOR COCAINE POSSESSION
Drugs Hidden In Emergency Brake Compartment
CARMEL, NEW YORK – June 5, 2019: Putnam County District Attorney Robert V. Tendy announced that Antoine Boyd, of Peekskill, NY, was sentenced on June 4, 2019, to two years in state prison to be followed by two years of Parole supervision for possession of cocaine.
Boyd, 29, was arrested on April 20, 2018 after a traffic stop which occurred in the vicinity of Putnam Valley, New York. Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Deputies conducted a search of Boyd’s vehicle and found over an eighth of an ounce of cocaine concealed in a compartment inside the emergency brake of the car.
Boyd had previously pled guilty on February 5, 2019 to Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 5th Degree, a class D felony. The case was handled by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Unit
and was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Breanne Smith.
