ARMONK, N.Y. (Nov. 25, 2025) — Robert P. Rubicco, the name sponsor of the 2025 New Rochelle Thanksgiving Parade that rolled through the city this past Saturday, was arrested in 2001 after North Castle police found 30 tablets of Ecstasy containing 1.71 grams of MDMA in the trunk of his car during a traffic stop at a Wampus Lake Drive residence, newly surfaced police records reveal.
The then-18-year-old Armonk high-school student, also known as “Bobby Beeks,” was driving a red 1997 BMW with New York plates when he arrived at 28 Wampus Lake Drive shortly before 9:30 p.m. on July 20, 2001.
Officers ordered him out of the vehicle, searched him and the car, and Rubicco immediately admitted he had pills in the trunk.
Police confiscated the tablets — 23 green ones stamped with a “scales of justice” logo and seven tannish tablets with an “M-like” logo — leading to his arrest on felony charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (B felony) and fourth degree (C felony).
Westchester County forensic lab tests confirmed the 30 tablets contained 1.71 grams of MDMA.
The BMW was impounded “for drug trafficking” and $221 in cash was seized.
Rubicco was held on $10,000 bail but later pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge in exchange for a three-month sentence in the Westchester County Penitentiary, 2001 court records show.
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