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Police find guns, drugs in two homes
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Members of the vice squad and Community Police Unit on Thursday serving search warrants investigating drug activity found more than $1,000 cash and three handguns in two homes.
One person was arrested at each home, and both face charges involving a significant amount of drugs found.
About 6:35 p.m. at a 139 E. Auburndale Ave. home, officers found a 9 mm handgun, suboxone strips, pills, suspected crack cocaine, fentanyl and $535 cash along with a 4-month-old child.
Arrested there on drug and weapons charges was Dontee Jackson, 27, who lists the home as his address.
Jackson was arraigned in municipal court on a second-degree felony charge of possession of drugs for the fentanyl and a fifth-degree felony possession of drugs for the crack cocaine. In Ohio, drug charges are decided by weight, and the higher the weight of the drugs, the higher the degree of felony that can be charged. His bond was set at $50,000.
About 5:15 p.m. at a 1507 Republic Ave. home, police found pills, ammunition, a 40-caliber handgun, a .380-caliber handgun, two bags of suspected marijuana, a bag of suspected powder cocaine and crack cocaine and $510.
Arrested there on drug and weapons charges was Derrick Tensley, 41, who lists the home as his address. Tensley was arraigned in municipal court on a first- degree felony of possession of cocaine, being a felon in possession of a firearm and a minor misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge. His bond also was set at $50,000.
Tensley is barred from having a gun as a result of several criminal convictions, including a domestic-violence conviction in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in 2012 for which he served an 18-month prison sentence and a 15-month sentence he received in 2009 after violating his probation on a charge of possession of cocaine.