Three men and a woman were indicted for Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance following a long-term investigation into narcotic trafficking.
Suffolk County District Attorney Tierney announced the indictments of Jose Morales, 44, of Brentwood, Erin Easop, 41, of Coram, Victoria Koehler, 55, homeless, and Russell Kiesche, 48, of Bohemia, saying, “more than nine ounces of cocaine, cash, and multiple firearms were seized from inside the alleged ringleader’s home.”
District Attorney Tierney said, “Today’s indictments send a clear message that cocaine traffickers will be caught if they peddle these poisons in Suffolk County, and they will be prosecuted.”
According to the investigation, from November 2024 through October 2025, Morales allegedly ran a large-scale narcotics distribution network, employing drug runners to pick up and deliver drugs, and to make drug sales on his behalf. Morales and his alleged drug runners, Easop, Koehler and Kiesche, on 11 separate occasions, sold cocaine to an undercover Suffolk County Police Officer.
According to the investigation, Morales provided the cellphone that was used specifically to arrange for the sale of street level amounts of cocaine, on behalf of Morales. Customers would call the cellphone, contact whichever runner happened to be in possession of the cellphone at that moment, and arrange to meet to purchase cocaine. Morales allegedly determined the price of the cocaine and personally handled the larger-quantity sales.
The Suffolk County Police Department executed a search warrant at Morales’ Brentwood residence. During the execution of this search warrant, officers allegedly recovered more than 9 ounces of cocaine, psilocybin (commonly referred to as “mushrooms”), amphetamine pills, a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm Luger semiautomatic pistol with a high-capacity ammunition feeding device, an Amadeo Rossi .38 special caliber revolver, a money counter, scales and baggies used for cocaine distribution, and more than $34,000 in cash.