Major drug trafficker sentenced to a decade in prison

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced today that former Riverhead resident, Carlos Reyes-Redrovan, 32, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by five years post-release supervision. Mr. Reyes-Redrovan plead guilty in July to two Class A felonies: Operating as a Major Drug Trafficker and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree.

According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions when he pled guilty, in August 2023, Mr. Reyes-Redrovan, then a resident of Riverhead, offered off-duty officers a sample of cocaine and his cell number at a Suffolk County bar. Between August 2023 to March 2024, Mr. Reyes-Redrovan sold undercover officers more than 37 ounces of cocaine on 15 different occasions. He also sold undercover officers 11 ounces of heroin between December 2023 and March 2024.

On June 20, 2024, Mr. Reyes-Redrovan sold an undercover officer 300 grams of heroin for $10,000 and was arrested.

A court-authorized eavesdropping warrant recorded his phone calls, and from those recordings, investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s East End Drug Task Force identified his cocaine supplier as Akim Slater of Ronkonkoma, 46.

According to the press release, a search at Mr. Slater’s residence recovered “a loaded and operable .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol, cocaine, and digital scales.” He was arrested in July of 2024, pleaded guilty to Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree, a Class A felony; and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a Class C felony; and was sentenced on Sept. 3, 2025, to eight years in prison, followed by five years post-release supervision.

“Drug trafficking, especially when coupled with illegal firearms, is a deadly threat to public safety,” said Mr. Tierney in a press release. “Wherever dangerous drugs are being sold in our county, the Suffolk County law enforcement community will act to hold those responsible.”