A Brooklyn man has admitted to running a “cocaine delivery service” in East Hampton, officials announced Tuesday.
Michael Khodorkovskiy, 44, pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance for selling cocaine with attempt to distribute in Suffolk County, according to District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney.
“Our East End is not a dumping ground for dangerous narcotics from New York City,” Tierney said in a news release, adding that Khodorkovskiy’s admission demonstrates his office’s commitment to “disrupting the flow of dangerous narcotics anywhere into Suffolk County.”
According to prosecutors, undercover police officers managed to infiltrate the defendant’s network by posing as customers.
Between July 2023 and August 2024, Khodorkovskiy sold “high quantities” of cocaine to an undercover investigator near his home in Brooklyn, believing the drug was going to be sold in Suffolk County.
During the investigation, Khodorkovskiy also sold cocaine to a different undercover police officer in East Hampton, thinking the drug was going to be redistributed both in the upscale summer resort and the neighboring hamlet of Montauk.
Overall, Khodorkovskiy and a co-conspirator, 39-year-old Alexander Dyatchin, of East Hampton, sold “significant quantities of cocaine” to investigators multiple times, including four instances in which two ounces of cocaine were sold.
Both men were arrested on Aug. 2, 2024. At the time, Khodorkovskiy was found with a kilo and a quarter (approximately 2.2 pounds) of cocaine and an undisclosed amount of MDMA, which police found in a hidden compartment in his Mercedes-Benz known as a “trap.”
During the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s home in Brooklyn, investigators also recovered $38,550 in cash and 39 gold coins with an estimated value of $100,000. Additionally, nearly $400,000 was seized from bank accounts linked to him, officials said.
On Monday, Khodorkovskiy pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Criminal Court to one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance. a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. He is due back in court on May 29.
Dyatchin’s case remains pending.
