Drug task force raids Warren house, seizes drugs, makes arrests

WARREN — Eleven people will be arraigned today in Warren Municipal Court and three females will be processed in juvenile court on various drug trafficking, possession and abuse charges after they were arrested Tuesday afternoon in a drug house on West Market Street.

Jeff Orr, a sergeant in the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department and commander of the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force, said TAG received assistance from the Mahoning Valley Crisis Response Team, which used the armored vehicle “Bear” to conduct the 1 p.m. raid near Nevada Street Northwest.

Inside, officers found 14 people, plus about about eight adult pit bull dogs loose in the house and about eight pit bull puppies in a cage.

Officers confiscated various drugs, including heroin valued at $17,000, crack cocaine valued at $6,000, cocaine valued at $6,000, Oxycontin valued at $42,000, marijuana valued at $500, $10,000 in cash, 10 firearms, and a military-issue bulletproof vest.

There were several alleged drug dealers among the individuals in the house, as well as several drug addicts.

Among those arrested were two people from Detroit who had brought the dogs with them, Orr said. The others were from the Warren area.

“This was a large distribution point with a lot of people coming and going all hours of the day,” Orr said.

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