LI Man Sells Pills Laced With Fentanyl To Cop, Gets 16 Years In Prison

DEER PARK, NY — A Deer Park man was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday, after he was convicted of selling oxycodone pills that were laced with fentanyl to an undercover police officer, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney.

Anthony Alexander, 57, also received three years post-release supervision by Judge Steven A. Pilewski.

In January 2022, an investigator assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office Heroin Task Force contacted Alexander and arranged to purchase a quantity of oxycodone pills, during an investigation.

Alexander sold the undercover investigator pills that purported to be oxycodone on Jan. 13, 2022, and Jan. 18, 2022. Both sales occurred at the Babylon train station, prosecutors said.

Testing later revealed the pills Alexander sold to the investigator were fentanyl, not oxycodone, officials said.

On Jan.20, 2022, Alexander was arrested at the Babylon train station. At the time of his arrest,
Alexander was found with metal knuckles and a quantity of pills including oxycodone, alprazolam,
and suboxone films, prosecutors said.

“Even though we only managed to take one drug dealer off the street during this trial, in doing so,
we may have just saved countless lives. That is just how dangerous fentanyl is,” said Tierney. “Thanks goes out to our Fentanyl Task Force and the hard work they put forth into this investigation. As District Attorney of Suffolk County, I will continue my push to strengthen the penalties surrounding fentanyl laws, as well as the creation of a death by dealer statute in our state.”

Alexander was found guilty on March 30 by a Suffolk County jury of three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, and two counts of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors said.