Three people were arrested Monday for selling heroin in Port Washington and Valley Stream that was connected to fatal and nonfatal overdoses, police said.
Police arrested Scott Moser, 28, of Valley Stream, and Jacklyn Seitz, 21, and Ata Kortuk, 26, both of Franklin Square, in Valley Stream in a buy and bust sting operation, police said.
Seitz and Kortuk first sold heroin to police in Port Washington at 6:10 p.m., and then in Valley Stream with Moser, where police arrested the three at 8:50 p.m.
Police said the arrests, plus another that occurred in Woodside, Queens, were connected through an investigation to an overdose death in Malverne on Dec. 22 and a nonfatal overdose on Dec. 23.
Both Seitz and Korkut were charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Moser was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and fourth-degree criminal facilitation.
Jemaly Thelusma, a Woodside man arrested at 10:55 p.m. the same night in a buy and bust operation, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.
Thelusma was arrested with 130 glassine envelopes of heroin on him, police said.
