Raid on deputy’s home yields guns and drug paraphernalia

staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County deputy sheriff has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a departmental internal affairs investigation after police raided her residence and said they seized drug paraphernalia and guns.

Deputy Angela Eaddy, who was hired by the county in April 2000, was immediately placed on leave after police raided her residence at 56 Garfield St. on the city’s South Side on Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Randall A. Wellington said.

Eaddy’s most recent assignment was road patrol, the sheriff said Friday.

Police reports showed no criminal charges arising from the raid as of Friday.

The search warrant for the 21‚Ñ2-story wooden house was issued by Judge Robert Milich of Youngstown Municipal Court.

Among the items police said were seized in the vice squad raid were two deputy badges and a Forum Health identification in the name of Angela Eaddy, rifles and handguns, a .45-caliber magazine with eight live rounds, an ammunition box containing 44 .45-caliber bullets, and three glass crack pipes.

The affidavit in support of the search warrant, signed by Officer Chad Zubal, said police were advised by a reliable informant in September 2008 that crack cocaine was being sold at 56 Garfield St.

During surveillance, police said they noticed numerous people go to the house, stay only a short time and leave, a pattern police said is common in illegal narcotics sales.

An informant made controlled buys of crack cocaine for police at that house in September 2008, January 2009 and March 2009, the affidavit said.

Eaddy could not be reached to comment late Friday afternoon.