On Tuesday November 9th at approximately 8:18 am members of the City of Amsterdam Detective Bureau observed 51 year-old Esmeralda Torres operating a motor vehicle in the area of Market Street in the City of Amsterdam. Torres was a target of an open investigation into the sale of narcotics within the City of Amsterdam. Probable cause existed for members of the detective bureau to take Torres into custody and a subsequent traffic stop was initiated in the parking lot of a Market Street business. Torres was taken into custody without incident and brought to police headquarters for processing. Furthering their investigation members of the Detective Bureau applied for and were granted search warrants for Torres’ vehicle and her Wall Street address.

As a result of those searches detectives located and seized a large quantity of cocaine, several bags of heroin packaged for sale, numerous opioid pills, drug packaging materials, scales, and over $10,000 in U.S. currency.