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Long Island Lawmaker, Doctor Arrested After Trying to Trade Drugs for Sex
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 21, 2020 11:38am |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | Jonathan Dienst, Greg Cergol and Tom Shea |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Long Island lawmaker, who is also a well-regarded doctor, was arrested after allegedly trying to trade drugs for sexual favors, according to two senior law enforcement officials.
Dr. William Spencer, a legislator for Suffolk County’s 18th District, faces drug-related charges after his arrest in a parking lot behind a Goodwill store in Elwood Tuesday afternoon, according to law enforcement officials. The Centerport resident was in an official Suffolk County vehicle at the time of his arrest, the senior officials told NBC New York.
He believed he was going to meet a woman with whom he could swap pills for sex, officials said, but it was a sting operation set up by a task force led by the Suffolk County district attorney’s office, along with Suffolk and Nassau County police, the sheriff’s office and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration. The task force was initially tipped off onto Spencer’s alleged behavior after a previous drug investigation, law enforcement officials said. |
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