Bellmorite charged with heroin possession

Police reported two arrests for heroin and Valium possession in Wantagh on Nov. 26. Defendant Michael Fabrizio, 29, of Bellmore, was a passenger in John Fatsis’s car in front of a McDonald’s on Wantagh Avenue when the arrests took place.

Fatsis, 30, of Massapequa Park, and Fabrizio were sitting in the vehicle in the back parking lot of the restaurant. Police said they found Fatsis with three wax packets of heroin and seven Valium pills. Fabrizio, meanwhile, had seven packets of heroin, according to police.

Fatsis was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree; Fabrizio was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.

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