Crime & Safety

Heroin Arrests in Massapequa Park

Brothers arrested after woman passes out at home.

Two brothers were busted for heroin possession after a woman passed out in a Massapequa Park home, police said.

Police went to the home of Bryan Luther, 18, and  his brother Thomas, 23, at their home on on Atlantic Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Sunday after receiving the report that a 19-year-old woman fainted.

When they discovered heroin, they called paramedics who administered Narcan, a drug used to combat the effect of narcotics, and transported the woman to area hospital.

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Officers arrested the brothers and recovered heroin and cocaine. They were charged with possession of a controlled substance. 

Bryan Luther was charged with criminal possession of a narcotic drug.

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