A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling crack cocaine and fentanyl-laced heroin outside of a Floral Park address in February 2024.
On February 27, 2024, Devon Brown texted with an undercover detective from the Nassau County Police Department’s Narcotics and Vice Squad posing as a buyer asking for cocaine and heroin and agreed to provide the drugs and arranged a meetup.
Brown went to the address in Floral Park and was met with several Nassau County Police Department detectives who identified themselves and attempted to arrest the defendant. Brown pulled away from the detectives and tried to run, barreling into one of the detectives and knocking him to the ground. As Brown ran, he threw away a small tin box which was recovered by police and found to contain loose crack cocaine.
A subsequent search of the area where Brown tried to flee recovered small colorful bags filled with a substance that was later tested and confirmed to contain fentanyl.
Police began investigating Brown after his phone number was identified during a separate investigation following a fatal overdose in Floral Park. Four additional defendants were arrested and prosecuted based on the information gathered through that investigation.
Brown was arrested on February 27, 2024, by detectives with the NCPD’s Narcotics and Vice Squad.
On August 13, 2025, Brown, 35, was convicted before Judge Terrence Murphy of two counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree (all Class B felonies); and Resisting Arrest (a Class A misdemeanor). The defendant was found not guilty of one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree and Assault in the Second Degree (both Class D violent felonies).
Brown was sentenced on October 31, 2025, to 10 years in prison and three years’ post-release supervision. The Nassau County District Attorney’s office recommended a sentence of 12 years in prison.
“After police found Devon Brown’s number in the phone of a fatal overdose victim, undercover officers reached out to see if Brown was supplying drugs in Nassau County. They arranged a meeting, and this defendant sold them cocaine and heroin without hesitation,” said Nassau DA Anne Donnelly. “Testing later determined that the heroin Brown sold actually contained deadly fentanyl. Devon Brown was selling poison in our communities, and now he will serve a decade behind bars for putting lives at risk. Dealers like this fuel addiction and destroy families, and my office will continue to go after them.”