2 women charged after restaurant workers reported them doing heroin

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said one woman arrested Thursday on drug charges at a Market Street restaurant fretted over the arrest costing her custody of her child, while another woman seemed resigned to be going to prison on a probation violation.

Jennifer Coyier, 31 of Burbank Avenue, was arrested on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. Heather Upole, 32, of Steel Street, was arrested on a probation violation and a charge of obstructing official business after she gave police a false name.

The two were taken into custody after police were called at about 7:15 p.m. to a 2525 Market St. restaurant, where employees said two women were in the restroom doing heroin. The restaurant has been the scene of several arrests for people doing heroin there.

The officers knocked on the door of the ladies room and heard the toilet flush, then opened the door and found Upole and Coyier, reports said. Reports said Coyier told police they had no drugs on them because they had just taken the heroin and were about to leave to go buy crack cocaine.

Reports said a female officer came and found a needle in Coyier’s bra and another needle and a marijuana pipe were found in her purse, reports said, so she was taken into custody. Upole gave police a false name and after she was told there was no record for that name, she admitted who she really was and said she lied because she is wanted on a probation violation from Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on a drug charge. She was taken into custody.

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