{"id":1131475,"date":"2021-12-18T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T04:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131475"},"modified":"2021-12-18T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T04:19:36","slug":"second-upstate-new-york-dem-politician-arrested-on-cocaine-possession-in-years-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-upstate-new-york-dem-politician-arrested-on-cocaine-possession-in-years-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Upstate New York Dem Politician Arrested on Cocaine Possession in Year&#039;s Time\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecond-upstate-new-york-dem-politician-arrested-on-cocaine-possession-in-years-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cocaine-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Upstate New York Democrat Legislator Anthony J. Arquiett, 56, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tribalpd\/photos\/a.804219972977865\/4793239914075831\">arrested<\/a> earlier this month on cocaine possession and intoxicated driving charges, marking the second Democrat politician in St. Lawrence County to be charged with cocaine possession in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Arquiett, a St. Lawrence County legislator, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nny360.com\/top_stories\/court-documents-legislator-arquiett-had-16-bac-told-police-he-had-too-much-to-drink\/article_6dddd221-2861-5e67-b438-a8f7965776e6.html\">involved<\/a> in a two-vehicle crash on December 4, according to NNY 360. The legislator allegedly told an officer, \u201cI was heading home and I had too much to drink.\u201d The officer searched Arquiett and allegedly found 2.5 grams of cocaine and&nbsp;two dextroamphetamine sulfate pills, NNY 360 reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>His lawyer, Ed Narrow,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/18\/upstate-ny-democrats-plagued-by-cocaine-busts\/\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em> that the legislator is due in court in January and he intends to plead not guilty. Narrow added that his client will not resign his seat in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is a disgrace that Arquiett refuses to resign and that fellow elected Democrats are silent,\u201d&nbsp; Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) of New York\u2019s 21st District told the <em>Post<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The incident comes about a year after then-mayor of Messena Village Tim Currier was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StlawcoSheriff\/status\/1333978427628658688\">arrested<\/a> by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff\u2019s Office (SCSO) on December 1, 2020, according to a release from the sheriff\u2019s office. While attempting to evade police, he was allegedly \u201c<span>observed by Detectives throwing approximately one gram of crack cocaine out his passenger window,\u201d the release states.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> After being arrested at gunpoint, Currier, who formerly served as Messena\u2019s police chief, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, and failure to comply with an officer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Democrat Mayor of Massena Arrested at Gunpoint, Drugs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_MtKLhLeMME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Currier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrynow.com\/news\/following-arrest-massena-mayor-will-take-leave-absence-seek-professional-treatment-0290596\">announced<\/a> a leave of absence from his position as Mayor the following day, according to North Country Now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Currier announced in a released statement, according to North Country Now:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>Some time ago, I made some poor decisions that unfortunately led me down a path resulting in my arrest on Tuesday, December 1st. I cannot express how embarrassed and disappointed in myself and for my family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nny360.com\/news\/stlawrencecounty\/former-massena-mayor-currier-pleads-guilty-to-failure-to-obey-police-officer-during-dec-1\/article_ae0bbf42-b238-5fd5-b06e-5cd6cc0fe022.html\">announced<\/a> his resignation on January 19, 2021, according to NNY 360.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In June, Currier pleaded guilty to failure to comply with an officer and was sentenced to pay a $150 fine and $93 court surcharge, according to the outlet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upstate New York Democrat Legislator Anthony J. Arquiett, 56, was arrested earlier this month on cocaine possession and intoxicated driving charges, marking the second Democrat politician in St. Lawrence County &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}