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‘Mayor’s walk’ nets $12,000 in cocaine/heroin bust
DAYTON - Drug-unit detectives recovered more than $12,000 in cash and nearly 700 grams of crack and heroin Thursday, July 30, after residents complained to Mayor Rhine McLin there was a drug house in their neighborhood.
Someone in the 800 block of S. Euclid Avenue told McLin’s group of the suspect drug house in May as the mayor walked through the neighborhood, according to a police report.
Detectives followed up on the complaint Thursday about 7:30 p.m. in what was planned to be a “knock and advise” at 848 S. Euclid Ave. It is common for police to make residents aware their house has been identified as a place for possible drug activity and they are “advised” to stop.
As officers arrived they noticed a man later identified as Anthony L. Stargell get out of a Chrysler 300 and walk toward the house carrying a plastic bag, the report stated.
They observed another man, who is not being identified because he was not arrested, walk up to the house’s front porch and Rodney E. Oliver, 38, sitting in a chair on the porch.
As officers approached, they heard what sounded like one of the men dropping a gun on concrete, the report stated. Another officer observed Stargell place a baggie of heroin capsules in a bush near the porch, the report stated.
While Stargell was placed in handcuffs, officers recovered a purple Crown Royal bag on the ground near the porch. Inside the bag were 94 gel capsules of crack cocaine, the report stated.
Next to the bag was a semi-automatic, 40-caliber handgun with nine rounds, including one in the chamber, the report stated. Officers believed it was Oliver, 38, who dropped the baggie and gun as they approached the porch, the report stated.
Inside the house, officers found another handgun and more than $10,000 in cash on the kitchen floor, the report stated. Officers also found “pressed cocaine” in large plastic bottles in the kitchen.
In all, officers found nearly 700 grams of heroin and cocaine on the men and in the house, the report stated.
Jacks to press the cocaine were also found in the house.
Stargell, 43, had nearly $2,000 in cash in his pocket, the report stated. He was booked in the Montgomery County Jail on possession of drugs.
Oliver was booked into jail on felony charges of tampering with evidence, carrying a concealed weapon, drug possession and having weapons under disability.
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