Eight-time convicted felon arrested on drug and gun charges

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(photo: Middletown City Police)

MIDDLETOWN – The City of Middletown Police Department Narcotics Unit with assistance from local, state and federal law enforcement, Wednesday, arrested an East Orange, New Jersey man following execution of search warrants.

Idris Sutton, 43, was the subject of a months’-long investigation into the sale and trafficking of drugs, specifically cocaine and fentanyl, in and around Middletown.

The search warrants were executed at 110 Center Street in Ellenville, a storage unit at 8109 Route 209 in Ellenville, a hotel room at the La Quinta Inn in the Town of Wallkill, and a storage unit at 485 East Main Street in the Town of Wallkill.

Sutton was arrested by Middletown Police and charged with state felony offenses of criminal sale and possession of drugs and criminal possession of a weapon.

During execution of the search warrants, officers seized 511.5 grams of cocaine, 17.5 grams of fentanyl, a loaded and defaced 9mm handgun, several boxes of ammunition, narcotics packaging materials and over $23,200 in cash.

The criminal case against Sutton was turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and will face additional federal charges.

He was remanded to the custody of the ATF pending those new charges.

Middletown Police Chief John Ewanciw said Sutton has eight felony convictions, seven in New Jersey and one in New York.

“I will continue to direct our personnel to aggressively investigate and arrest any individual who chooses to engage in the illegal narcotics trade in our community, utilizing our own resources, as well as those of our state and federal partners,” the chief said. “Too many lives have been lost to drug abuse and addiction, and we must all work together to hold offenders strictly accountable.”

Anyone with information about narcotics or weapons-related activity in the City of Middletown is asked to call the police at 845-343-3151 or via the anonymous narcotics tip line at 845-346-4009.

Additional information can be sent electronically via NIXLE by sending “Tip Middletown” to 888777.




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