Police: 2 found with 7,000 bags of heroin
Police: 2 found with 7,000 bags of heroin
Undercover effort seizes drugs near Elsmere
By TERRI SANGINITI
The News Journal
Two men were found late Monday with nearly 7,000 bags of packaged heroin worth more than $90,000 during an undercover operation outside Wilmington, city police said.
The arrests came about 9:10 p.m. after officers in the 1000 block of Montgomery Road, off Faulkland Road, near Elsmere, spotted the driver of a 2002 Chevrolet pickup pull into the driveway of a home and go inside.
A man across the street was seen "pacing around on his cell phone and looking in all directions, as if he were waiting for someone to arrive," police said in court records.
The pickup driver came out of the house minutes later carrying a large paper bag with handles and delivered it to the man standing across the street, said police Master Sgt. Steven Barnes.
The man, later identified as 29-year-old Alfred Evans, got into a white 1998 Buick and started to drive off.
Officers checked the vehicle's registration and found that the owner of the Buick was driving with a suspended license, and stopped it at Del. 100 and Faulkland Road, Barnes said.
The paper bag contained several logs of suspected heroin and was found in Evans' lap, according to court records.
There were 6,495 heroin bags that were stamped with the words "Versace" and "Goya."
Heroin has become the drug of choice in the city, over-shadowing cocaine and crack, said Lt. William Wells, who heads the vice unit.
"There seems to be more of a demand for heroin," he said. "I would imagine that these arrests will put a temporary dent in the heroin trade. We're pretty confident we stopped that source. But there always seems to be somebody willing to step up and take someone's place."
Evans, of the 200 block of Madison St., was charged with trafficking heroin and three other offenses and is being held in Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $288,000 bail.
The Montgomery Road home of Anderson Vazquez -- the man in the pickup -- was raided about 11:37 p.m. and an additional 390 glassine bags of heroin were found in the garage.
Vazquez, 39, denied meeting with Evans or selling drugs, police said in court records.
He was charged with trafficking heroin and three other offenses and committed to Vaughn Correctional Institution after failing to post $299,000 bail.
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That was right down the street. daaaaamn!
picture of all the bags spread out...:
makes me sad
EDIT: it was stated in a different article about the same thing that it totaled around 170 grams I believe.