Whiskey carrying case had heroin, police say

 

A Rhode Island Street man is being held on felony drug charges for allegedly having a cloth whiskey carrying case filled with 18 glassine bags of heroin as police questioned him late Thursday. Melvin Rivera, 20, is being held on a charge of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, which carries a prison term of up to 25 years, and a marijuana count. Buffalo Police Officers Michael Doctor and Richard Manley said they saw him drop the whiskey bag full of heroin as they confronted him in a house in the 200 block of Rhode Island about a “hand-to-hand drug transaction” they had observed earlier that night. He was charged with the marijuana count for allegedly having a bag of marijuana and a marijuana-filled cigar.