Police executed a search warrant at dawn on Sept. 20 at a Queens Village home and arrested five adults on drugs and weapons charges.
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Five people were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on drugs and weapons charges late Wednesday night, hours after the NYPD executed a search warrant at their Queens Village home and seized four firearms — including an assault rifle — and more than 4 kilograms of fentanyl-laced cocaine and heroin with a street value of more than $200,000, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. The weapons and drugs were discovered just steps away from a 10-year-old boy’s bedroom.
Ancil Hazelwood, 48, Courtney Jackson, 32, Malik Lewis, 43, Domonique Sierra, 37, and Jessica Smythe, 28, who all lived at a home on 100th Avenue in Queens Village, were arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Edwin Novillo on a complaint charging them each with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth degrees; one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree; four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree; and endangering the welfare of a child.
According to the charges, at approximately 4:40 a.m. on Sept. 20, police from the Queens South Detective Squad in a joint operation with 105th Precinct field intelligence officers descended on the residence at 208-08 100th Ave., in what was the culmination of a longtime investigation into both drugs and firearms. They took no chances as they entered the location, as the officers hoisted ballistic shields to guard against possible gunfire. Once inside they recovered 2,387 grams of cocaine with traces of fentanyl, 1,676 grams of heroin with traces of fentanyl, a quantity of crack cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, and three scales containing cocaine…
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