Men found smoking pot in 7-Eleven parking lot, cops say

Three Nassau County men face drug charges after they were found smoking marijuana in the parking lot of a Levittown 7-Eleven early Wednesday, police said.

During an investigation, Bureau of Special Operations officers saw the three about 12:30 a.m., smoking marijuana in a 2010 Ford that was parked in the lot of the convenience store at 1 Farmedge Rd., police said.

The driver, Eduardo F. Correia, 20, of 10th Avenue, Mineola, had a grinder, a small bag of cocaine and five alprazolam pills, police said.

Gage R. Doughty, 21, of South First Street, Bethpage, put a glass pipe containing marijuana into the center console, and the rear-seat passenger, Vincent Scarimbolo, 19, of Gable Gate, Old Bethpage, was in possession of a small amount of liquid marijuana.

Each was arrested without incident, police said.

Correia is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of marijuana and three counts of unlawful possession of marijuana, police said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.

Scarimbolo is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of marijuana. Doughty is charged with two counts of criminal possession of marijuana. Each was given a desk appearance ticket for May 9, police said.