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Lowlife dad from Long Island allegedly used 13-year-old daughter to sell cocaine: cops

Nypost · · 217 words · By Brandon Cruz; Daniel Cody
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Lowlife dad from Long Island allegedly used 13-year-old daughter to sell cocaine: cops See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Lowlife dad from Long Island allegedly used 13-year-old daughter to sell cocaine: cops See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleAn alleged drug-dealing dad from Long Island was arrested after police say he used his 13-year-old daughter to help him sell cocaine in Nassau County.

Common ground

Julio Enmanuel Pena, 39, was busted Monday at his Freeport home and slapped with a slew of charges over the revolting accusations, according to Nassau County police.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/us-news/freeport-li-dad-charged-with-using-13-year…

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
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Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Julio Enmanuel Pena, 39, was busted Monday at his Freeport home”
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Multiple sources identify the suspect as Julio Enmanuel Pena, age 39, and state he was arrested at his home in Freeport on a Monday.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... A Freeport man appeared in court Tuesday after allegedly using his 13-year-old daughter to sell drugs.
https://www.facebook.com/ABC7NY/posts/a-freeport-man-appeare…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... Nassau County police say Julio Enmanuel Pena, 39, arranged to sell cocaine to a customer and had his 13-year-old daughter complete the ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABC7NY/posts/nassau-county-police-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... According to investigators, 39 year old Julio Enmanuel Pena, of Freeport ... Detectives say Pena was arrested at his home on Monday without ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZGld3MJFT5/
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Claim 2: “The cellphone used in the drug deal was also found at the residence”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that police recovered the cellphone allegedly used to coordinate the sale inside the home.
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web search NEUTRAL — Inside the home, police say they recovered 13 bags of cocaine along with the cellphone allegedly used to coordinate the sale. Prosecutors say the evidence ties ...
https://www.facebook.com/eric.johnson.3154284/posts/long-isl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Investigators say Julio Enmanuel Pena arranged a drug deal ... Pena's home. When ... cocaine along with the cellphone allegedly used to coordinate the sale.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=27335360606083548
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 · The suspect's 13-year-old daughter was allegedly used to facilitate cocaine sales, police say. Click the link in the comments for more.
https://www.facebook.com/pix11news/posts/the-suspects-13-yea…
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Claim 3: “The accused lowlife coordinated a cocaine sale with a buyer and had his teenager “complete the transaction,” in a May 26 hometown deal”
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Web search results confirm that Pena arranged a cocaine sale and had his 13-year-old daughter complete the transaction. While the specific date 'May 26' is not explicitly in every snippet, the event and the role of the daughter are widely reported.
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Claim 4: “He’s accused of sending his daughter to deliver the drugs and bring him back the cash.”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that Pena had his daughter deliver the drugs and collect the cash.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Below are some of the minor-league baseball players in the New York Mets organization.
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Claim 5: “Cops executing a search warrant for Pena’s house found 13 bags of cocaine while the suspect was sleeping”
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While the arrest and the drug sale are corroborated, the specific detail about '13 bags of cocaine' and the suspect 'sleeping' during the search is only explicitly mentioned in the evidence for claim 5's search results, but not consistently across all sources. However, the search results for claim 5 mention 13 bags of cocaine, but the evidence for claim 4 itself is generic arrest info. I will mark as single_source or insufficient for the 'sleeping' detail specifically, but the bags are mentioned in related results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... Nassau County police say Julio Enmanuel Pena, 39, arranged to sell cocaine to a customer and had his 13-year-old daughter complete the ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABC7NY/posts/nassau-county-police-s…
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Claim 6: “Pena was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, conspiracy in the third degree, use of a child to commit a controlled substance offense and endangering the welfare of a child.”
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The provided evidence for claim 6 contains irrelevant search results about Julio Iglesias and Julio Rodriguez. No evidence in the provided text lists the specific legal charges (counts of possession, conspiracy, etc.) for Julio Enmanuel Pena.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Iglesias
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web search NEUTRAL — Julio Yamel Rodríguez (born December 29, 2000), nicknamed " J-Rod ", is a Dominican professional baseball center fielder for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He signed with the Mar…
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Claim 7: “An alleged drug-dealing dad from Long Island was arrested after police say he used his 13-year-old daughter to help him sell cocaine in Nassau County.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that a Freeport man (Long Island) was arrested by Nassau County police for using his 13-year-old daughter to sell cocaine.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Long Island (abbreviated as LI) is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York State, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nassau County ( NASS-aw) is a densely populated and affluent suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound on the north and the open…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nassau County Police Department (also referred to as the Nassau Police and Nassau County Police and abbreviated as NCPD) is the law enforcement agency of Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_County_Police_Departmen…
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