YOUNGSTOWN Scotts to face charges after police search

The vice squad and task force reported finding cocaine in a woman's bra.
By PATRICIA MEADE
VINDICATOR CRIME REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- In the mid-1990s, Lester Scott and Shauna Barry Scott proclaimed to be anti-drug activists whose Dare to Dream Foundation helped inner-city youth.
The image cracked in 1995 when Lester Scott was convicted of a drug charge. The image cracked again in December 1999 when he received an 18-month prison sentence based on cocaine possession and illegal use of food stamps.
Also in December 1999, his wife received 10 days in jail and four years' probation for perjury and illegal use of food stamps.
The couple crossed paths again this past weekend with the Youngstown Police Department vice squad and Mahoning Valley Drug Task Force.
Search warrant: Officers used a search warrant to enter the Scotts' Elm Street home.
After knocking and announcing, "Youngstown police -- search warrant," Friday, the officers saw Lester Scott, 41, on a second-floor balcony. When no one answered the door, police forced it open.
A search of the balcony turned up bags of crack cocaine in the top of a bottled water dispenser, police said.
In a bedroom, crack cocaine was found in a videocassette case, they said.
Police said they also found syrup bottles filled with Tussinex, a controlled substance, marijuana in a purse, prescription pills, and 23 separately packaged bags of crack in 39-year-old Shauna Barry Scott's bra.
Lester Scott, who police once said controlled drugs at a North Side housing project, faces charges of trafficking in crack, possession of drugs (Tussinex) and mislabeling of prescription drugs.
Shauna Barry Scott faces charges of trafficking in crack, trafficking in marijuana, possession of marijuana, possession of a dangerous drug (Ultram) and mislabeling of prescription drugs.
Monday, Municipal Judge Robert P. Milich declined to arraign the Scotts because their paperwork was late getting into court, officials said.
They were expected to be arraigned today.
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