Youngstown Police raids find drugs, cash, bullet-proof vests
You might say Wednesday’s stormy weather arrived a few hours early for two men who police accuse of selling drugs from their Youngstown homes.
Police conducted drug raids at homes on two sides of town Wednesday afternoon, making three arrests.
Police say they found 40-year-old Jimmy Moore relaxing on the front porch of his Halls Heights home at around 4 p.m. when they announced they were serving a search warrant.
After Moore was handcuffed, YPD officers and members of the Mahoning County Crisis Response Team searched the home.
According to a police report, a search of the house and garage uncovered methamphetamine, as well as bags of fentanyl, crack and crack cocaine.
Police also confiscated two loaded magazines, two bullet-proof vests, a digital scale, and more than $1,500 cash.
Moore was charged with possessing fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia.
Forty-three-year-old Jennifer Calabria, who police say was caught at the home carrying fentanyl, was also taken to jail.
About an hour later, officers traveled from the Westside to the Southside where they announced they had a warrant to search the home of 60-year-old Michael Moody on West Hylda Avenue.
Finding Moody in the backyard, police searched the home finding two digital scales and a gun.
Since Moody was convicted of assaulting a police officer in 1997, he was not permitted by law to possess a firearm and was booked into the county jail on charges of having a weapon under a disability and possessing drug paraphernalia.
Both men are scheduled to answer the charges on Friday during hearings in Youngstown Municipal Court.
