From DemocratAndChronicle.com….
A seven-month drug investigation rattled Rochester’s political world with the arrest Wednesday of Timothy Granison, the husband of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren.
Granison was not an initial target of the investigation, which police and prosecutors said involved a wiretap that had been underway for the past seven months, but did emerge as one three months ago. The political sensitivity of his emergence as a criminal suspect prompted District Attorney Sandra Doorley to ask the State Police to step in — originally Rochester police were investigating — and take control of the investigation into Granison.
That was done “to preserve the integrity of the investigation for obvious reasons,” Doorley said at a news conference Thursday morning.
Granison’s charges are serious — he is accused of possession of 31 grams of cocaine with intent to sell, which was allegedly found in his car after it was stopped, and illegal possession of a handgun — but they would appear far differently in isolation, than in the context of an alleged drug trafficking network. With the latter, the investigation will continue and the scope of the ring, if one is proven to exist, could lead to even more charges for those arrested this week and for others.
