YPD finds six guns in West Side home, cocaine and fentanyl

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police found six guns in a West Side home Thursday while serving a search warrant investigating drug activity.

The guns – four handguns, a sawed-off .12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 assault rifle – were found about 6:45 p.m. at a 228 S. Portland Ave. home by members of the vice squad and the Community Police Unit.

The guns were in a third-floor room that was locked. Police had to pry the door open after a man in the house refused to give police the key.

Also found in the home was ammunition, cash, 2 ounces of suspected cocaine with a street value of about $3,000 and fentanyl.

A man was arrested at the home but his name was not readily available Thursday night.

Earlier, about 4:50 p.m., officers also served a warrant at a 276 E. Judson Ave. home on the South Side where they served a similar warrant earlier this year. Found in that home was a .38-caliber revolver, suspected crack cocaine and fentanyl.

One man also was taken into custody at that home. That man also was arrested in the earlier raid, police said. His name was not immediately available Thursday night.