A school custodian was arrested Wednesday night for heroin possession in Bethpage, Nassau police said.
Daniel Pereira
Daniel Pereira, 24, a custodian for the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District was found to be in possession of approximately 50 packets of heroin stamped with the words “MySpace” in the parking lot of King Kullen supermarket on Stewart Avenue at 9:15 p.m., according to Narcotics/Vice Squad detectives.
Pereira was “immediately suspended him from his position as an evening cleaner at John F. Kennedy High School,” school officials said in a statement.
Pereira was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and will be arraigned on at First District Court in Hempstead on Thursday.
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