A New York limo driver admitted Monday he ran a Brooklyn-to-Montauk drug “supply service” — promoting high-priced cocaine out of a glossy Mercedes to posh shoppers at spots together with a yacht membership.
Michael Khodorkovskiy, 44, copped to at least one drug dealing cost in a Riverhead, New York courtroom as a part of a plea cope with prosecutors that’s anticipated to internet him 10 years behind bars at his Could 29 sentencing.
Khodorkovskiy was busted in August, alongside Alexandr Dyatchin, on 47 drug-related prices for a year-long scheme to promote high-end coke at inflated costs across the Hamptons, at spots just like the Montauk Yacht Membership, Rosie’s eatery, and most steadily on Newtown Lane in East Hampton — thought to be the Rodeo Drive of the vacation-home set.
Each males — who labored as non-public rideshare and Uber drivers — performed the illicit transactions out of their Mercedes vehicles which had been retro-fitted with “traps.” or hidden compartments to cover the medication, prosecutors claimed.
They not solely dealt coke — which they bought for triple the road value — but in addition celebration drug MDMA and tablets, prosecutors alleged.
They had been caught after promoting massive portions of cocaine to undercover cops — together with 4 gross sales the place the officers purchased two ounces or extra from the pair, prosecutors mentioned. The boys have been held on $2 million since their arrests.
Khodorkovskiy — a Ukraine-born US citizen — was cuffed on Aug. 2, alongside Dyatchin, 39, who allegedly got here up with the ritzy cocaine supply service scheme.
Throughout the bust, legislation enforcement found over three kilos of the white powdery narcotic and tablets stashed in drug traps inside his Benz S500, officers mentioned on the time. In addition they discovered almost $39,000 in money, and 39 gold cash value $100,000, prosecutors mentioned.
Dyatchin’s East Hampton rental dwelling was full of 589 grams of coke divided into packages, 269 grams of MDMA, and near $20,000 in money. His Mercedes had one other 50 envelopes of cocaine stashed in traps, officers mentioned.
Whereas a baggie of lower than a gram of coke would go for $50 on the road, the duo was promoting the identical quantity for $150 a pop, prosecutors claimed.
Outdoors courtroom, Khodorkovskiy’s lawyer, Matthew Myers, mentioned his consumer labored exhausting his complete life and fell on exhausting instances throughout the pandemic operating his limo enterprise. He racked up $100,000 in debt and misplaced all the opposite autos that he’d bought for the corporate, lastly turning to drug dealing, Myers mentioned.
“Khodorkovskiy was requested many instances to supply rich Manhattan partiers narcotics,” Myers mentioned, noting his consumer rejected the request till turning to dealing out of desperation.
Dyatchin is due in courtroom Wednesday. He’s not a citizen and has outstayed his visa and will face deportation if convicted.
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