YOUNGSTOWN Cops mount drug raids at three city residences
Four arrests were made after officers found suspected heroin and crack cocaine.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city police vice squad made several arrests during drug raids at three South Side residences.
A 37-year-old East Myrtle Avenue woman is accused of aggravated trafficking in heroin after police searched her home around 4:30 p.m. Friday, police reports show. She was standing next to a bed where officers found $880 and a plastic bag containing numerous bundles of suspected heroin.
The woman was taken to the Mahoning County jail where a deputy sheriff found 30 packets of suspected heroin inside the waistband of her pants.
Crack: During a 2:30 p.m. Friday search, a 35-year-old South Side man was arrested on a charge of aggravated trafficking in crack cocaine when he was found inside a West Princeton Avenue home standing near a plastic bag containing several smaller bags of suspected crack cocaine packaged for sale, police reports show. Officers also confiscated $87 from the man, of East Ravenwood Avenue.
Two North Side men were arrested on drug abuse-cocaine charges during a 3 p.m. Friday search of a home on East Philadelphia Avenue on the city's South Side.
Police found a plastic bag containing suspected crack cocaine and $1,090 on a 24-year-old Fairgreen Avenue man, police reports show. They found a plastic bag containing several rocks of suspected crack cocaine and $55 on a 21-year-old man, of a separate Fairgreen Avenue address.