Task forces raid house, arrest four men

Staff report

WARREN

Police charged a Starlite Drive Northwest man with drug trafficking and arrested three other men while raiding a house at 696 Maple St. SW on Thursday night.

No arraignment is scheduled yet for Darrelle Williams, 20, of 3204 Starlite, on the drug-trafficking charge, but he did appear in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Friday on other charges.

He appeared for a preliminary hearing regarding an eight-count indictment a Trumbull County grand jury handed up against him Feb. 28 on drug and weapons charges.

The Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force and U.S. Marshals Task Force raided the Maple Street home at 7 p.m. after a one-month investigation prompted by complaints from neighbors, TAG said.

The three other men, Eric D. Dotson, 53, Auchetes McCorkle, 21, and Antonio Murray, 23, were arrested on warrants for failure to pay fines on earlier court cases.

Inside the house, police found 22 grams of crack cocaine, 1 gram of heroin, a small amount of marijuana, prescription pills, two stolen firearms, digital scales and a video-surveillance system, TAG said.

One of the weapons was stolen from Warren and the other from Farmdale.