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7 guns seized in searches Thursday
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Vice squad and Community Police Unit officers serving search warrants investigating drug activity at two separate homes seized a total of seven guns along with drugs.
About 5:15 p.m. Thursday at a 956 Glenmont Ave. home on the North Side, police found a revolver, an MK 1 Smith & Wesson handgun, a 7.62 mm assault rifle and a .50-caliber muzzle-loading rifle.
Also found in the home were nine pills, a digital scale, three bags of fentanyl and 21 bags of suspected marijuana along with four children age 14, 9 and two 7-year-olds. They were left in the care of relatives.
Arrested on a charge of trafficking in marijuana because he was found next to the marijuana is Andree Bowers, 41, of Superior Street. Arrested on two counts of possession of drugs and being a felon in possession of a firearm was Raymond Jones, 35, who reports said listed the home as his address.
About 7 p.m., officers serving a warrant at a 46 W. Princeton Ave. home on the South Side found three scales, a bag of suspected heroin and an individual dose of suspected heroin, three pills, a bag of suspected marijuana and three handguns – a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson, a .357 Smith & Wesson revolver and a .38-caliber revolver whose make was not listed.
Arrested there on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of drugs, two counts of possession of heroin and possession of marijuana was Deray Johnson, 30, who reports said lists the home as his address.
Reports said that when police arrived, Johnson ran out the door but was caught a short time later after a foot chase on nearby West LaClede Avenue.