Beacon, NY – A Hudson Valley man is behind bars after allegedly selling drugs to undercover agents from a drug task force for a second time. The Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office Drug Task Force arrested Raequan Keemer, age 29, of Beacon, on Tuesday, April 30, for two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
Det. Sgt. Adam Harris of the task force confirmed that Keemer’s arrest is related to an unsealed Dutchess County Grand Jury indictment for those charges. In June of 2023, Keemer had previously pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance as part of an investigation in the city of Beacon.
According to Harris, Keemer had agreed then to receive up to 12 years in prison unless he successfully completed a diversion program in Dutchess County after the guilty plea. However, Harris noted that shortly after Keemer began the diversion program, he resumed selling cocaine, leading to multiple purchases from him by task force agents in Beacon.