Cop from Mineola Sentenced to 2.5 Years on Drug Charge

A former Hempstead police officer from Mineola has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of selling opiate-based prescription painkillers.

According to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, 39-year old Brian Jones sold the opiate-based prescription drugs clonazepam, oxycodone and oxymorphone to a “confidential informant” on May 2, 2011 as part of an ongoing investigation. Jones also allegedly sold the same person oxycodone on May 13, 2011 and oxymorphone on May 26, 2011.

Jones accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors as Nassau County Court Judge John L. Kase handing down the sentence on October 3, with Jones beginning to serve the term immediately in the Nassau County jail.

At the time of his arrest on July 19, 2011, more than one half-ounce of oxycodone was found in Jones’s vehicle.

Jones was suspended without pay on an unrelated matter at the time of his arrest and was terminated from the department in September 2011.