STATEN ISLAND — A coke ring run by three brothers has been busted after months of dealing the drug around Staten island, prosecutors said.
Alamir Lewis, 34, Alphonso Lewis, 31, and Toriano Lewis, 28, were indicted Tuesday on felony drug charges after they sold cocaine to undercover officers, Staten Island's District Attorney Michael McMahon said.
"These defendants have been indicted on felony drug charges for dealing cocaine in several Staten Island communities," McMahon said in a statement.
"We will keep fighting each and every day to get drugs off the streets and to put dealers in prison."
A fourth dealer, Eric Moore, 21, was arrested last month and indicted on drug charges as part of the investigation into the ring, McMahon said.
From September 2016 to Jan. 27, the brothers sold cocaine several times to undercover officers in Grasmere, Bulls Head, Castleton Corners, Oakwood and Dongan Hills — mainly dealing from their cars — prosecutors said.
A search of one of their homes turned up about 40 grams of cocaine, authorities said.
Toriano Lewis was hit with an eight count indictment for criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Alamir Lewis was charged with five counts of the same charges while Alphonso Lewis was indicted on two counts, prosecutors said.
Alphonso Lewis previously pleaded guilty to drug charges after officers found him with 33 bags of cocaine in his underwear during a stop in December, according to court records and the Staten Island Advance.
Their lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Moore, who was arrested earlier in January, was hit with six counts of criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
He has been previously arrested twice in 2015 and charged with grand larceny, petit larceny and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs, according to court records.
His lawyer could not be reached for comment.
