Saturday, October 24, 2015
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Members of the police vice squad serving search warrants investigating drug activity Thursday found two guns and 38 doses of suspected heroin in one house.
Also found was a small amount of drugs as well as an assault rifle and other weapons in another house.
Arrested about 5:35 p.m. Thursday at a 651 St. Louis Ave. home where the large amount of suspected heroin was found were Mustafa Musleh, 29, and Robert Clark, 42, both of Youngstown. They were both arraigned in municipal court Friday on charges of possession of heroin, possession of drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clark has additional charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Bond was set at $30,000 for Musleh and Clark.
Besides the suspected heroin, police found two loaded .357-Magnum revolvers, two scales, more than a dozen pills, $174 cash, loose heroin and a bag of suspected cocaine.
Officers also served a warrant at 116 E. Philadelphia Ave. home about 6:10 p.m. Arrested on possession of heroin charges there and possession of drug paraphernalia charges were Shania Bell, 18; Roy Coney, 66; Lamar Coleman, 31; and Elijah Hatten, 19 – all of Youngstown.
Inside that home police found a bag of suspected marijuana, a scale and a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun; a .38-caliber revolver; a sawed-off .12-gauge shotgun; and a loaded SKS assault rifle, a Chinese replica of the AK-47 assault rifle.
When police arrived reports said a car driven by Nicole Ballester, 33, of Boardman, was pulling out of the drive and it was pulled over at Southern Boulevard and LaBelle avenues. Inside the car police found four doses of suspected heroin. Ballester was taken into custody on a charge of possession of heroin.
Ballester’s bond was set at $5,000; the people inside the home received bonds of $40,000 each.
Assistant City Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno said the guns found inside the home are being tested to see if they were used in a homicide in the city earlier this year. He also said drugs have been sold there for some time.
“This is a known heroin house,” Moliterno said.
Records show Musleh has an extensive court record, with 30 cases alone filed against him in municipal court dating back to 2005. Of those, 23 are traffic cases, including a pending DUI he was issued Sept. 25 by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
In Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, records show Musleh was sentenced to a year in prison in 2011 on a failure to comply charge when reports said he jumped out of a moving car in a South Avenue parking lot while being chased by police and ordered a 6-year-old girl inside with him to also jump out, reports said.