Agents with the state Attorney General Drug Task Force raid a home Monday morning on Melrose Avenue. Credit: Felicia Mycyk/Ambridge Connection
A heroin investigation led to a search Monday morning at an Ambridge home with felony charges now pending against the resident.
Agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at 537 Melrose Ave., in Ambridge.
Agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at 537 Melrose Ave., in Ambridge.
There, authorities said they found a shotgun, three and a half bricks of heroin, and a couple thousands of dollars in cash belonging to the unidentified resident. In drug slang, a brick is a group of 50 individual doses of heroin.
State officials said agents conducted the search, in conjunction with Ambridge and Avalon police, after learning that people from Beaver and Allegheny counties were coming to the house and purchasing heroin for personal use.
Authorities said Ambridge and other towns located along the Route 65 corridor are getting hit hard from Pittsburgh. Forty-four people were charged just last week accused of participating in a Pittsburgh-area heroin ring.
“They’re having obviously the problems with heroin down here, and kind of everywhere nowadays.”
The resident, who authorities said is on probation, will be charged in connection with the items found Monday along with felony delivery charges.
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State officials said agents conducted the search, in conjunction with Ambridge and Avalon police, after learning that people from Beaver and Allegheny counties were coming to the house and purchasing heroin for personal use.
Authorities said Ambridge and other towns located along the Route 65 corridor are getting hit hard from Pittsburgh. Forty-four people were charged just last week accused of participating in a Pittsburgh-area heroin ring.
“They’re having obviously the problems with heroin down here, and kind of everywhere nowadays.”
The resident, who authorities said is on probation, will be charged in connection with the items found Monday along with felony delivery charges.
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Agents with the state Attorney General's office raid a Melrose Avenue home on Monday.
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