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Potsdam man faces drug charge, was driving car where passenger allegedly had felony quantities of heroin, crack

Posted 10/16/15

WESTVILLE -- A Potsdam man was charged after a traffic stop here turned up heroin and crack. Mark A. Green, 22, of Potsdam is charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled …

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Potsdam man faces drug charge, was driving car where passenger allegedly had felony quantities of heroin, crack

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WESTVILLE -- A Potsdam man was charged after a traffic stop here turned up heroin and crack.

Mark A. Green, 22, of Potsdam is charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

The passenger in his vehicle, Damien Nelson, 23, of New York City, is jailed on two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count of criminal impersonation, police said.

State police say they pulled over a vehicle on Friday that Green was driving.

A search allegedly yielded one gram of heroin in Green’s possession. Nelson was allegedly found with one ounce of heroin and one ounce of crack cocaine, troopers said.

Nelson allegedly gave police a false name. Once troopers figured out who he was, they learned he had an active parole warrant, police said.

Green was released with an appearance ticket for Westville Town Court on Nov. 10.

Nelson was arraigned in separate courts for the drug and impersonation charges, police said.

He was arraigned in the drug charges in Malone Town Court by Justice Charles Gardner and ordered held at the Franklin County Jail, Malone in lieu of $25,000 bail or $50,000 bond and given orders to re-appear Oct. 22, troopers said.

He was arraigned on the impersonation charge in Westville Town Court by Justice Darwin Fleury and remanded to the Franklin County Jail, Malone in lieu of $20,000 bail or $40,000 bond and given orders to re-appear Nov. 10, troopers said.

Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol and the St. Lawrence County Drug Task Force assisted state police, according to investigators.