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Long Island Man Pleads Guilty To Using Long Island Home To Produce Ecstasy, Grow Pot

An electrician with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has pleaded guilty to using a stash house on Long Island to produce ecstasy and grown marijuana.

An Elmhurst man pleaded guilty to running a drug lab and grow house on Long Island.

An Elmhurst man pleaded guilty to running a drug lab and grow house on Long Island.

Joseph Guida, 45, of Elmhurst, entered his plea on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip. 

According to court filings, Guida used a house in Mastic for more than five years to manufacture MDMA and marijuana for resale, said the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

His operation was uncovered when officers with Customs and Border Protection intercepted a package containing a drug used in making ecstasy that was mailed from China to Guida’s apartment in Queens. 

Homeland Security agents then interviewed Guida, and he admitted that he ordered the drug and used the Mastic residence as an MDMA lab and marijuana grow-house, according to court filings.

A search of the Mastic residence by law enforcement agents, some wearing protective hazmat suits revealed chemicals and laboratory equipment for manufacturing MDMA, as well as approximately 36 marijuana plants and approximately 1.3 kilograms of processed marijuana.

“Guida turned a house in a residential neighborhood into a drug factory, with total disregard for the danger posed to his neighbors by the volatile chemicals used to manufacture ecstasy,” stated U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.

As part of his guilty plea, Guida agreed to forfeit his interest in the Mastic residence and a Dodge Durango that he used in connection with his drug operation.

When sentenced, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

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