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Vice raids net large amount of cash
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police found a large amount of cash and a man with a gun while serving two separate search warrants Wednesday and investigating drug activity.
Reports said there was a large crowd in front of a home at 205 Jefferson Ave. on the North Side when members of the vice squad and other officers pulled up just before 5 p.m., and people ran.
Marquise Green, 22, of Youngstown, ran through a vacant field and held a gun close to his body, reports said. He was chased by several officers, and when he was caught in a nearby yard he had an empty holster and bags of crack cocaine, heroin and pills, reports said. Near where he had been running, police found a loaded .45-caliber handgun.
Green was taken to the Mahoning County jail on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, resisting arrest, possession of drugs/heroin, possession of drugs/crack cocaine and possession of dangerous drugs.
Another man who ran, Darnell Curry, 18, also was found in a nearby driveway. Underneath a car in the drive, police found a bag of pills. He was taken to the jail on charges of resisting arrest and possession of dangerous drugs.
At the house, another man, Deandre Smith, 19, had a bag of marijuana and $511 in cash on him, and Tony Curry, 19, had a bag of crack cocaine and $810 in cash on him, police said. He was taken to the jail on a charge of possession of crack cocaine. Smith was given a citation for possession of marijuana and released.
Inside the house, police found a bag of pills, a bag of marijuana and a scale.
Also issued a citation was Tandre Jackson, no age given, for obstruction of official business.
About 6 p.m. the officers served another warrant at a home at 114 Oneta Ave. on the West Side, where reports earlier this week said residents have been complaining of drug activity at the home. When officers arrived, no one answered the door, so police had to kick it in, reports said.
Inside, police found Christopher Pope, 24, and Amy Mitchell, 42, coming down the steps. Reports said there were torn plastic bags, syringes and heroin strewn across the carpet and a chair in an upstairs bedroom. Inside they found scales, a spoon, a crack pipe, 23 strips of suboxone and $1,454 in cash, reports said.
Pope was taken to the Mahoning County jail on a charge of possession of drugs/heroin. Mitchell was booked into the jail on charges of possession of drugs, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia.