The defendants face an array of felony drug sale, drug possession and weapons possession charges amounting to hundreds of years of prison time. He said the two agencies “instantly became a team.” URGENT investigator Joe Stock led the investigation. Robert Curry, who was also indicted, was part of a scheme to sell cocaine unrelated to the other defendants, authorities said.įigueroa praised the work between members of the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) and the attorney general’s organized crime task force. The lower-level dealers would ask to buy the pills in quantities of up to 300 at a time, according to the indictment. Pulichene also received packages of fake Adderall pills from the West Coast and cocaine from the Gulf Coast, according to the attorney general’s office, and would re-sell the drugs to lower-level dealers based in Ulster, Dutchess and Saratoga counties, who would then sell the pills around New York and elsewhere. Pulichene would then sell the pills to lower-level dealers. In the alleged multi-pronged conspiracy, Kingston resident Joshua Guldy supplied fake Oxycodone pills to Alton Countryman and Thekla Countryman of Kingston, who resold the pills to Pulichene and others, according to the indictment. The messages in the indictment refer to “oranges” - fake Adderall pills packed with methamphetamine, “blues” or “berries” - fake Oxycodone pills packed with heroin, and “greens” or “beans” - fake Xanax pills. The investigation involved wiretaps, according to James’ office, and the indictment is filled with quotes from phone conversations, texts, and messages allegedly sent through the encrypted messaging app Signal. Police recovered 11 kilograms of cocaine - with a street value of about $1.2 million - and more than 20,000 pills, 39 firearms and $120,000 cash in the case, though it has not been revealed what contraband was found in which location. The site of the other stash house, 7 Ridge Road, was listed as the address of A-10 Tactical, a DBA owned by Pulichene from 2011-2016, during which time he was a federally licensed firearms dealer, according to local and federal records.
The LLC had bought the building from local commercial landlord Dino Toscani, Graff said. The attorney who represented the LLC in the purchase, Wayne Graff, said it was a small landholding company created to purchase the building. The building was sold to a Warwick-based LLC in Feburary 2022, according to property tax records. Figueroa could not say how the defendants accessed the bank basement. The basement was accessible through the building’s lobby, Figeuroa said, as opposed to through the more secure interior.
Sheriff Figueroa said the contraband was found in the bank building’s basement. The bank branch was sold in February and was not occupied when it was raided, though Wells Fargo still maintained an ATM at the location. Police also raided stash houses in Kingston and Wappingers Falls, according to James. Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa confirmed the two stash houses raided in New Paltz were the former bank and 7 Ridge Road, a residence in the village. Authorities said the operation supplied narcotics in parts of the Hudson Valley and the Capital Region.
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