The area around Vinnie's Farm Market on Route 32 in Saugerties just got a little safer, cops say.
An investigation into ongoing complaints of heroin sales near the fruit stand has yielded an arrest. On Tuesday, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team executed a search warrant at the Route 32 home of 29-year-old John Tyler Kuhn, just down the street from the Saugerties farmstand, after an undercover officer purchased heroin from Kuhn.
The search at Kuhn's house turned up 190 bags of heroin, an indoor marijuana grow operation, packaged marijuana, drug packaging materials and electronic scales. Police are also holding $5000 in cash and a 2003 Mercedes Benz, which are pending seizure.
Kuhn faces charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of marijuana in the second degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and two counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree.
An announcement of the arrest on the Ulster County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page prompted several reactions from customers of Vinnie's -- and, it appears, farmstand owner Vincent Neglia himself.
