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Cops: Calverton man found with crack, PCP & hydrocodone

By Vera Chinese

A Calverton man was arrested Wednesday after police stopped him for driving without wearing seat belt and then found a cornucopia of drugs in the car, Southampton Town Police said.

Joe Coffey, 48, was stopped near the intersection of Old Quogue Road and Flanders road in Riverside about 12 p.m. when he gave what police soon found was a fake name. He was also found to be driving with a suspended license, police said.

A subsequent search of the vehicle turned up crack cocaine, PCP and hydrocodone tablets, authorities said.

He was charged with criminal impersonation, five counts of criminal possession of controlled substance in varying degrees and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, officials said.

He was being held overnight as he awaited an appearance in Southampton Town Justice Court.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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