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Cops: Motorist stopped on Southern arrested on drug charges

On a Southern State Parkway on-ramp in Valley Stream Sunday morning, an Elmont man was pulled over by a state trooper because he wasn't wearing a seat belt - but the traffic stop soon became a drug arrest when the trooper found marijuana and prescription painkillers in his car, police said.

Pietro Ciampa, 23, of Lawrence St., was charged with drug possession, marijuana possession and not wearing...

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