Cops again raid suspected crack house

WARREN -- Despite repeated raids, the illicit drug business from one northwest Warren home continues to thrive, police officials say.
Officers from the city police's drug enforcement bureau found 2 ounces of suspected crack cocaine, worth about $2,400, $450 cash and a loaded 12-gauge shotgun during a raid on 1436 Ogden Ave. N.W. Friday evening.
It was the bureau's third raid on the home in seven months, said Lt. Thomas Skoczylas, commander of the bureau. Four people were in the house when police burst in unannounced. They will be charged pending a laboratory analysis of the suspected drugs. The two previous raids also netted money and suspected drugs. Charges from those raids are also pending lab results, Skoczylas said. The department receives several complaints a week about activities at the house, he said.
"We get complaints of him selling and we bust him, then he is doing it again," Skoczylas said.
A customer came to the door of the house Friday, while it was being searched by eight police officers and a dog, he said.
He said there was no crime with which the customer could be charged. Police found the suspected crack, enough for several hundred individual doses, hidden in a basement fruit cellar and in the rafters of the house.