Police: Pleasantville Man Found with Pounds of Pot, Fortune in Cash

This article was reported by Krista Madsen and posted by Sarah Studley. It was originally published at 10:45 a.m. and has been updated.

A recent Tarrytown drug bust yielded several pounds of pot and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, police told Patch Thursday. 

Two New York men were arrested by the Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force on Tuesday afternoon following a brief investigation at the Bridge Plaza shopping plaza in Tarrytown.

Igor V. Kaplunovsky, 51, of Narrowsburg, New York was charged with criminal possession of marijuana in the second dress, a class D felony.

Ronnie I. Bordin, 55, of Pleasantville, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, with intent to sell, a B felony.

Tarrytown police reported that Kaplunovsky was found at the scene with 4.5 pounds of marijuana. Bordin was found with numerous narcotic pills, marijuana and over $8,000. 

A search of Bordin's home in Pleasantville, with the help of Pleasantville police, later yielded approximately 6.5 pounds of marijuana and about $346,000 in cash, police said.

Investigation is ongoing with possible additional charges "anticipated," Tarrytown Lt. William Herguth said. 

Westchester County Jail records show Kaplunovsky remains incarcerated on $7,500 bail and is due back in Tarrytown Village Court June 17. The jail does not have any record of Bordin as an inmate as of Thursday evening.


Note: Arrests do not indicate convictions.