District Attorney Indicts 22 In Drug Dealing Network

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced a 66-count indictment of 22 individuals on drug-related charges on Monday. The indictments follow a six-month undercover investigation that used court-authorized eavesdropping warrants to target a network of narcotics dealers distributing crack and powdered cocaine in Rockland and in Bergen County, NJ. Twenty-one of the indicted individuals are in custody and one is presently being sought.

The defendants arrested in “Operation Say No More” range in age from 20 to 61 and include two brothers. The defendants are charged with selling cocaine and other controlled substances to undercover police officers on separate occasions in the Hillburn section of Ramapo and Stag Hill area of Mahwah, NJ.

“This initiative is another step in our ongoing campaign to stop drug-dealing and drug-based violence in our neighborhoods,” said Zugibe.

The brothers who were arrested, Elam Yisrael, 38, of Jersey City, NJ and Enaim Yisrael, 37, of New York City, are allegedly the main suppliers for four separate cocaine distribution gangs in Rockland. Also arrested was Peter Bowens, 24, of 125 Sixth Street in Hillburn, who is alleged to be a major cocaine distributor in Hillburn. An active warrant has been issued for Gladimir Boursiquot, 27, of Spring Valley.

The investigation began in May when the Rockland County Drug Task Force received information from the Town of Ramapo Police Department Street Crime Unit about street-level cocaine dealing. Undercover detectives made undercover buys and conducted “buyer beware” operations that included physical surveillance, court-authorized eavesdropping and search warrants.

The other arrested individuals were identified by Zugibe’s office as: Wayne Hicks, 24, of Nanuet; Emanuele Margiotta, 40, of Nanuet; Christine Zeppieri, 38, of Congers; Cole Van Dunk, 20, of Central Nyack; Enino Munno, 45, of Tappan; Rodelain Michel, 36, of Spring Valley; Stanley Juin, 27, of Spring Valley; Lesley Audate, 24, no hometown listed; Kenny Dieudonne, 26, of Spring Valley; Rasean Thompson, 24, of Spring Valley; Robert Vargas, 22, of Spring Valley; Tanisha Jacobs, 37, of Haverstraw; Demond Corey Vaughn, 38, of Garnerville; Fredly Dubuisson, 31, of Stony Point; Frank Hadley, 41, of Haverstraw; Everett “Peter” Oliver, 32, of Hillburn; Leonardo Powell, 60 of Mahwah and Gloria Ball, 52, of Mahwah.

The defendants are variously charged with numerous counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a class “B” Felony and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a class “B” Felony, each punishable by up to nine years in prison. Several of the individuals have extensive prior criminal histories for drug selling, robbery, assault, burglary, parole violation, weapons possession and resisting arrest.

Local police departments involved in the investigation were the Town of Ramapo, Mahwah Police Department, Town of Haverstraw, Town of Clarkstown Police Department and K-9 Unit, Town of Orangetown, Spring Valley, Village of Suffern, New York Drug Enforcement Task Force and New York State Police Troop F - Haverstraw K-9 Unit.