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Raid nets arrest of man, 63, for alleged possession of crack cocaine, heroin and meth
Police raided an apartment on Park Avenue in Port Richmond.
Police raided an apartment in Port Richmond where they allegedly confiscated illegal drugs including crack cocaine, heroin and meth.
William Dale, 63, was arrested when officers armed with a search warrant raided his apartment on Park Avenue at 6 a.m. on April 22, according to the criminal complaint based on an investigation by Narcotics Borough Staten Island.
On a table, officers allegedly found several loose rocks of crack cocaine and a plastic zipper bag containing that stimulant, four glass pipes with crack-cocaine residue, three glassine envelopes of heroin and a straw with residue of that opioid, plus empty plastic zipper bags of the type typically used to package drugs, according to the criminal complaint and police.
Man, 29, caught with loaded gun in stairwell of apartment building, cops allege
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
Police respond to an apartment building on Holland Avenue in Mariners Harbor in this file photo from Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Police nabbed a man who allegedly was toting a loaded gun inside a stairwell of an apartment complex in Mariners Harbor.
Kevin Espinal, 29, stands accused in the incident last Thursday at 8:58 p.m. inside the building where he lives at 85 Holland Ave., according to the criminal complaint.
Officers caught Espinal wearing a bag that contained a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol loaded with eleven rounds in its magazine, the complaint alleges.