Assault Rifles, Fentanyl, Box Of Pasta Seized At LI Trucking Company Owner's Storage Facility: Feds

FARMINGDALE, NY — The owner of a Long Island trucking company was arrested Tuesday morning by the FBI, IRS agents and Suffolk County police after assault rifles, fentanyl and other items were seized from one of his storage facilities, federal officials said.

According to John Marzulli, public information officer for the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, Kingsley McDonald, owner of McDonald Logistics Inc., was arrested after about 5 kilograms of fentanyl, plastic bags containing about 1 kilogram of additional controlled substances, an AK-47 assault rifle, an AR-15 assault rifle, a .357 caliber revolver, quantities of firearm ammunition, a kilogram press and about 15 grams of marijuana were found in one of McDonald's Farmingdale storage facilities.

Execution of the court’s other search warrants revealed about 1,120 grams of combined fentanyl and heroin and about 350 grams of cocaine at McDonald's West Babylon residence; about 400 grams of cocaine and about 100 grams of fentanyl at McDonald's second Farmingdale storage facility; and a .22 caliber firearm seized from his Shirley residence, Marzulli said.

In addition, a box of pasta was shown in the detention memo but federal officials could not comment on why it was seized.

McDonald was ordered detained by Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione; his attorney is Joseph Ferrante, who did not immediately return a request for comment.

A letter from the U.S. Attorney to Judge Tiscione in advance of McDonald's arraignment stated that the "court, should find, in accordance with the statutory presumption that applies here, that the defendant poses a danger to the community and a flight risk. Therefore, the court should enter a permanent order of detention against him. "

According to the U.S. Attorney, McDonald was charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 or more grams of fentanyl and with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute 40 or more grams of fentanyl.

Between September 2023 and September 2025, McDonald worked with other individuals to conspire to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl in Suffolk County, the U.S. Attorney's letter said.

"In addition, as established by recorded controlled purchases of fentanyl from the defendant, which were conducted on multiple occasions within approximately the last five months, the defendant personally sold more than 570 grams of controlled substances, which laboratory analysis confirmed contained fentanyl, at locations in Suffolk County," the U.S. Attorney said. "Each of the defendant’s sales involved quantities of fentanyl well in excess of 40 grams. Notably, just 2 milligrams of fentanyl is sufficient to cause a deadly overdose."

The keys to the Farmingdale storage facility where the evidence was recovered were seized from one of McDonald's vehicles, which he repeatedly used in connection with his drug trafficking activities, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

"In addition to this overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s fentanyl and other controlled substances trafficking operation, a review of cellular telephone communications seized from the defendant’s iCloud accounts pursuant to a search warrant issued by the Honorable James M. Wicks in July 2025, showed that, within approximately the last year, the defendant regularly engaged in communications with controlled substances sales customers and that, in addition, to quantities of fentanyl, the defendant also sold quantities of Adderall and oxycodone," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

The search warrant also showed that McDonald had communications with a cellular telephone used by a Suffolk County resident "who, in March 2024, died of a drug overdose that was caused, in part, by fentanyl," federal officials said.