Nassau County Police arrested two men from Levittown after a traffic stop on Polaris Drive on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 8:14pm.[1] Officers had observed five occupants in a 2014 Honda that failed to stop at a stop sign on Polaris Drive.[2] The stop and the investigation that followed led to the recovery of a loaded .38 handgun and approximately a half pound of a substance believed to be marijuana inside the vehicle.[1]

Police said the two occupants of the vehicle confessed to possession and admitted to further weapons and drugs at a storage facility and a residence.[1] Search warrants executed at Jordan Tonis’s Levittown residence and a storage locker at 4040 Hempstead Turnpike in Bethpage recovered about 298 alleged Xanax pills, 254 individually packaged e-cigarette cartridges containing alleged concentrated THC, approximately $1,670 in US currency, a large digital scale, a counting machine and a vacuum sealing machine.[1]

Jordan Tonis, 21, was charged with two counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance, Assault 2nd degree, Criminal Possession of Marijuana and five counts of Criminal Contempt for violating a Nassau County Stay Away Order.[1] David Niem, 19, of Levittown was charged with three counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance, Criminal Possession of a Firearm and Menacing.[1] Tonis was arraigned on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 in First District Court at 99 Main Street, Hempstead.[2] Niem would be arraigned as soon as medically practical.[2]