Patchogue Man Gets 10 Years In Prison For Drug Sales To Cops: DA

PATCHOGUE, NY — A Patchogue man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, after he pleaded guilty to selling cocaine and fentanyl to an undercover officer, as well as illegal gun possession, all while he was on parole for a 2003 manslaughter conviction, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced.

Charles Evans, 38, was also sentenced to five years post-release supervision by Honorable Timothy A. Mazzei.

Between October and November 2022, undercover Narcotics Section officers with the Suffolk County Police Department purchased cocaine and fentanyl from Evans at his Patchogue residence on two separate dates, according to the investigation and the Evans' admissions during his guilty plea allocution.

Evans was arrested on Dec. 16, 2022, after police executed a search warrant at his residence. During the search of his home, police recovered fentanyl, cocaine, two semi-automatic pistols, three assault rifles, and three high capacity feeding devices, prosecutors said.

At the time of his arrest in this case, Evans was on parole for a July 2003 conviction in Suffolk
County for first-degree manslaughter, officials said.

He was sentenced to 19 years in prison for that conviction, but was released from prison and placed on parole in September 2020.

"This defendant made a mockery of our justice system by continuing to break the law while he
was on parole supervision for manslaughter," said Tierney. "Now, he will go right back to prison where he can no longer disregard our laws and threaten the safety of our community."

On June 21, Evans pleaded guilty before Judge Mazzei.

At the time of his plea, he admitted that on Nov. 11, 2022, he sold a quantity of fentanyl to an undercover police officer and illegally possessed a weapon in connection with the execution of the warrant search on Dec. 16, 2022.

Patch reached out to Steven Wilutis, Evans' attorney, for comment.