Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Vladimir Elie, 48, of Bay Shore, was sentenced to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty in October 2025 to Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree for selling more than two ounces of cocaine to an undercover officer.

“This bar was a blight on the community, and I thank the Suffolk County Police Department and the New York State Liquor Authority for coming together and shutting it down,” said District Attorney Tierney . “Drug dealers should be on notice: if you sell in Suffolk County you will go to prison.”

According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during his guilty plea allocution, in October 2024, the Suffolk County Police Department began an investigation into JW’s Bar,

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