Youngstown drug raids results in arrests

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police found fentanyl in two homes Wednesday while serving search warrants investigating drug activity.

About 5:45 p.m. at a 829 Cameron Ave. home on the South Side, officers with the vice squad and the Community Police Unit found a bag of fentanyl, a bag of suspected cocaine and two scales.

Arrested there on drug charges was Joshua Ortiz, 24, of Webster Street, and Darien Thompson, 21, who lists the home as his address.

About 4:55 p.m., officers serving a warrant at a 717 Clyde St. home on the North Side, officers found Jessica Davis, 34, of South Davis Street in Girard, in the backyard. Reports said she threw some plastic bags on the ground before she was arrested.

Reports said police found suspected heroin, fentanyl and suspected cocaine in the bags.

Davis also was arrested on drug charges.

Ortiz, Thompson and Davis are in the Mahoning County jail.