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Falls police narcotics detectives, along with members of the department’s Emergency Response Team took a bite out of the city’s weed trade with a raid Wednesday night on a Tennessee Avenue home.
Officers hit the house at 2061 Tennessee Ave. just after 6:30 p.m., barreling through a lightly barricaded door and catching two suspects inside. Detectives said the house was a busy, 24 hours a day operation in a relatively quiet residential neighborhood.
“We had numerous complaints from residents,” Narcotics Division Capt. Morris Shamrock said. “There was constant traffic in and out, cars coming and going and parking illegally, (the dealers) operated in shifts so they could keep it running.”
Detectives found marijuana, packaged in individual plastic shot cups, ready for sale. For large-volume pot buyers, there were plastic containers, sometimes used by pizzerias for blue cheese dressing, available.
“You can buy in different quantities,” Shamrock said. “Sometimes they have sales, two (plastic shot servings) for $15.”
The 15 containers of marijuana seized by detectives added up to more than 25 grams of pot. Also seized was a quantity of suspected powdered cocaine.
“They would re-supply multiple times a day to off-set their losses if we showed up,” Shamrock said.
Officers also found a .22-caliber bolt-action Marlin long rifle in a closet of the home.
“Hopefully this will give the neighbors a little relief from what they’ve been dealing with,” Shamrock said.
Detectives charged Michael Antwon Brewer, 21, 1132 Fairfield Ave., and Andre Ricardo Dyte, 19, 1828 Linwood Ave., each with fifth-degree unlawful possession of marijuana. Additional charges are pending.
Brewer is not a stranger to narcotics detectives. In November of 2006 he was arrested on a marijuana possession charge after a traffic stop at Ninth Street and Fairfield Avenue.
Officers said at the time when he got out of his car, six small glass bottles containing marijuana fell out of his pant leg. Inside the car police found a box containing 66 more bottles with pot in them.
In total, police said Brewer had 29.6 grams of marijuana on that occasion.
