Police arrest 3 suspects on drug charges

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police serving search warrants investigating drug activity found drugs and weapons and arrested three people Thursday night.

About 7:10 p.m. at a 232 North Heights Ave. home on the North Side, members of the vice squad and Community Police Unit found two large bags of suspected crack cocaine, six individual doses of suspected crack cocaine, a digital scale, fentanyl and a .32-caliber handgun.

Police arrested Carlos Herring, 29, who lists the home as his address, on charges of possession of drugs, possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia and being a felon in possession of a firearm. His bond was set at $50,000 Friday during his arraignment in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick.

About 6:15 p.m. at a 1063 Orange Ave. home on the South Side, police found a .380-caliber handgun, 30 pills and a marijuana grinder. Arrested there on charges of possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia was Elizabeth Velazquez-Martel, 27, who lists the home as her address. Her bond was set at $5,000 during her arraignment.

Herring and Velazquez-Martel remain in the Mahoning County jail.

Arrested about 5 p.m. at a 375 Hilton Ave. home on the South Side on charges of possession of drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia was Ronisha Harris, 27, after police found seven pills, suspected marijuana, a marijuana grinder and a drum magazine containing 50 rounds of 9 mm ammunition at her home.

Harris was booked into the jail and then released on a summons, according to jail records.

A pretrial date of May 4 was set in her case and she remains free on her own recognizance.