You want a side of highs with that?
Two Long Island jerks turned a local jerk-chicken restaurant into a drug takeout spot — using phony soda cans to hand off cocaine to customers, officials said.
Carlton Williams, 58, and Rohan Rose, 47, turned Stop n Nyamm into a drive-through narcotics den between January and February as they covertly sold cocaine and fentanyl, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced Wednesday.
Williams is the listed owner of the Jamaican eatery, where cops claim the jerk-pushing duo turned into drug-pushers.
“A restaurant is a place where people come together over a meal, not a place where deadly drugs like cocaine and fentanyl should allegedly be bought and sold,” Tierney said.
“These defendants allegedly did just that, turning a community gathering spot into a drug distribution operation,” he added.
The operation fell apart when an undercover officer allegedly bought cocaine from Williams several times.
The officer made one purchase inside the restaurant and witnessed the cook retrieving the drug from fake soda cans with false bottoms stashed beneath the counter, prosecutors said. Cops wouldn’t say if the coke was stashed in Coke cans or other brands.
On at least one occasion, Williams allegedly tapped Rose — his nephew and a Stop n Nyamm employee — to complete a deal on his behalf.
When investigators searched the restaurant and Williams’ apartment in February, they found the operation ran far deeper than the lunch counter.
Authorities found about one and a half ounces of cocaine and two ounces of fentanyl, much of it already packaged and ready to be sold individually, along with several more false-bottom cans and $1,500 in cash, according to the DA.
Officers then searched Williams’ apartment and found roughly a kilo and a half of cocaine, a half kilo of fentanyl, more than $39,000 in cash — and a full distribution setup including blenders, hydraulic presses, cutting agents, and digital scales, the DA said.
In Rose’s bedroom, cops allegedly found three extended ammo magazines capable of holding more than 10 bullets each.
Williams was arraigned Monday on 23 charges, including two Class A felony counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree. He was held on $2.5 million bail.
He faces up to 20 years if convicted on the top count and is set to return to court May 1.
His nephew was arraigned Wednesday on 11 counts, including weapon possession charges tied to the magazines, and held on $40,000 cash bail.
He faces up to nine years and is due back in court May 6.
