Croton police stand with two large packages of marijuana, which they say was seized from Andron Lewis.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Croton Police Department

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – Croton police said they seized more than 53 pounds of marijuana Wednesday night from a caregiver to mentally disabled individuals.
Andron Lewis, 255 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, was charged with felony criminal possession of marijuana. Police said Lewis was having the drugs shipped to a group home where he worked in Croton-on-Hudson.
Croton police said the two large packages, containing 53.6 pounds of marijuana, are believed to have come from California and have an estimated street value of $345,000. The bust was the result of an eight-month investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.
The investigation culminated about 7 p.m. Wednesday, when Croton police said Lewis failed to signal and was pulled over for a traffic violation. New York State Police narcotics dog Hudson assisted in locating the marijuana in the van, police said. Lewis did not attempt to hide the packages and they were in plain sight, police said.
The Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics, the group which operates the home where Lewis worked, said they only learned of the incident upon Lewis’ arrest.
“We are working with the police, and if it’s determined that anyone had any knowledge of this, they will be fired,” said Normal Liss, the company’s attorney.
The company also is conducting its own investigation, according to Liss, into the 10 other employees who worked with Lewis at the Croton home.
Liss said the company is “fastidious” in its hiring practices and each employee is subject to a criminal background check. He said Lewis had no criminal incidents on his record at the time he was hired in 2007. Liss said Lewis was driving a company vehicle at the time of the arrest and the company is working with police to determine where the company vehicle may have been when Lewis was in possession of it.
Police Chief Anthony Tramaglini said police believe Lewis used the mentally handicapped residents he cared for at the group home to assist him in moving the marijuana in and out of a vehicle. Police said because of the ongoing investigation, they are unable to say how many shipments the group home might have received and if Lewis acted alone in transporting the large quantities of marijuana.
“We were shocked at that, and we’re shocked anyone would use people like that,” Tramaglini said. “Parts of it are still ongoing, but we received information on shipments.”
Lewis was sent to Westchester County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail and is due back in court April 4. He was arraigned in Village Justice Court by Justice Sam Watkins.

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Trayvon Martin killing: witness says he saw Zimmerman walk away uninjured
Account contradicts allegation from Zimmerman’s father that Trayvon Martin left his son with injuries including a broken nose

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin Photograph: Orlando Sentinel
A man who says he saw Trayvon Martin shot dead claims that the Florida teenager and his killer, George Zimmerman, were scuffling on the ground at the time with one on top of the other.

The first eyewitness account of the 17-year-old’s final moments emerged on Thursday night more than a month after the boy lost his life in an altercation with a neighbourhood watch leader in a gated community in Sanford.

The anonymous man said he reported to police details of what he saw on the evening of 26 February, which included watching the gunman walking away from the fight apparently uninjured.

It contradicts an allegation from Zimmerman’s father earlier in the day that the unarmed black teenager broke his son’s nose during the incident and also left him with bloody injuries from slamming the man’s head repeatedly on to a concrete pavement. The eyewitness says he saw no blood and that the entire confrontation took place only on grass.

“I saw two men on the ground, one on top of the other. I felt they were scuffling and I heard gunshots which to me were more like pops,” he said in an interview broadcast on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, his voice disguised to protect his identity.

“I don’t know if was an echo but it definitely made more than one pop.
“After the larger man got off there was a boy, obviously now dead, on the ground facing down.

“It was dark. I can’t say I watched him get up, but in a couple of seconds or so he was walking towards where I was watching and I could see him a little bit clearer. It was a Hispanic man. He didn’t appear hurt or anything else. He just kind of seemed very worried with his hand up to his forehead.”

The man said that before opening his window and looking out, he had heard angry voices outside. “There was a loud, predominant voice. I couldn’t hear the words but this is not a regular conversation,” he said. “This is someone aggressively yelling at someone.”

He said there was a lull but the argument resumed and that was when he decided to see what was going on.

“I’m thinking something horrible is happening. I heard the yell for help and another excruciating kind of a yell, it didn’t even sound like a yell, it sounded so painful,” he said.

The Sanford Police Department, which has been criticised for not arresting Zimmerman, 28, would not confirm the witness’s account, referring questions to the office of Florida state attorney Angela Corey, appointed last week to oversee the case.

Nobody was available at Corey’s office to comment.

But Daryl Parks, attorney for Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, said the story “answers a lot of questions”.

He said: “It is very clear this witness saw what happened and clearly indicated the person that he saw that did the shooting. The other part that really strikes out for me is that he seems to have not seen the apparent injuries from this altercation that Mr Zimmerman claims that he suffered.

“It seems clear that Zimmerman’s statement about Trayvon following him back to the truck is totally untrue because from this witness’s statement all the interaction happened in one particular area, so I think Mr Zimmerman will be arrested very soon.”

CCTV video which shows Zimmerman hours after the teenager’s death has also cast doubt on his claims that he was injured in a vicious fight with the victim. Earlier reports suggested that 17-year-old Martin had attacked Zimmerman first, with the bloodied gunman pulling the trigger in self-defence.

But in the footage, first aired by ABC news, Zimmerman’s head and face are clearly visible and there appears to be no sign of any wounds. There are no obvious indications of blood on the front of his T-shirt that could indicate evidence of a broken nose.