A drug-dealing duo ran a Brooklyn-to-Montauk cocaine “delivery service” that catered to high-end Hamptons clients willing to pay three times the street price for a powdery fix, prosecutors said Thursday. Alexandr Dyatchin and Michael Khodorkovsky stashed cocaine and MDMA in Mercedes cars filled with “traps” — hidden compartments used for drug smuggling — and peddled those illicit wares to well-heeled customers on the East End of Long Island, according to prosecutors and a 74-count indictment leveled against the pair. “That cocaine was sold at basically three time the normal street value of cocaine,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said.
“So, it was a lucrative business for them until they were arrested.” The chic cocaine caper allegedly hatched by Dyatchin, 38, and Khodorkovsky, 44, was among five recent high-profile, but unrelated, drug- and gun-trafficking cases highlighted by Tierney during a marathon news conference. The duo was arrested Aug.
2 after an undercover investigation that included drug sales near Khodorkovsky’s apartment in Brooklyn, prosecutors said. Khodorkovsky had a kilo-and-a-half of cocaine when cops busted him, in addition to coke and pills stashed in his car’s “traps,” prosecutors said. He also had $38,550 in cash and 39 gold coins valued at $100,000 in his Brooklyn apartment, Tierney said.
Dyatchin’s rented East Hampton home had 589 grams of cocaine divided up into nearly twice as many individual packages, 269 grams of MDMA and $19,046 in cash, prosecutors said. His Mercedes allegedly had a trap with more than 50 envelopes of cocaine. Law-enforcement sources said a baggie of less than a gram of coke goes for around $50 on the street, meaning Dyatchin and Khodorkovsky’s alleged clients would have been shelling out $150 or more.
Investigators found the pair, who each owned a Mercedes and worked as private rideshare and Uber drivers, sealed their deals inside their luxury cars after meetups with customers in hoity-toity Hamptons spots such as the Montauk Yacht Club and Rosie’s eatery, the Daily Mail first reported . The two were arraigned Aug. 16 and ordered held on $2 million cash bonds.
The case wasn’t the only massive bust featured by Tierney, who detailed cases that involved illegal guns and a fatal fentanyl overdose. He said the five cases had yielded 39 indictments and 389 criminal counts. “They’re five separate networks that are not connected, but they’re five separate tentacles, if you will,” he told reporters.
The cases included a cocaine and methamphetamine ring that involved Brandon Scanlon, 33, who allegedly took off from an April drug bust, hitting a Suffolk County police officer with a minivan before leading cops on a Hollywood-style shootout and chase . “Scanlon allegedly fired multiple times at law enforcement,” Tierney said. “Scanlon fired out of this open vehicle window with his gun pointed sideways, across his stomach and a lit cigarette in his mouth.
We know that because we have it on video.” Scanlon faces an attempted murder charge, while prosecutors leveled drug-related charges against 14 others in the case, records show..
