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Article: Arrested for dealing on campus: Prosecutors say substitute janitor for Westhampton Beach schools sold cocaine, painkillers on grounds.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2007
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Byline: Christine Armario
May 3--Ralph Hernandez was hired to clean the school hallways of the Westhampton Beach district. But yesterday, law enforcement authorities said all he did was create one big mess.
Hernandez, 26, of East Moriches, a substitute janitor for the district, was arrested yesterday for allegedly dealing drugs on school grounds. Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said undercover detectives purchased powder cocaine from Hernandez at a school parking lot twice in the past month -- and that Hernandez admitted to selling Percocet, a prescription painkiller, to several students.
"This is particularly disturbing in that somebody ...