A federal investigation has landed a Youngstown man behind bars.

29 year-old Daniel May of Youngstown was arrested Friday morning following months of observation, as well as a property search of his home on the city's west-side.

According to a criminal complaint, May is accused of being a felon in possession of firearms. And, according to an affidavit, May is also suspected of distributing and possessing drugs.

Mays' criminal history includes a 2014 conviction for possession of cocaine, and a 2015 conviction of trafficking heroin and tampering with evidence.

Each conviction is a felony level crime and according to federal law prohibits May from possessing a firearm.

In January 2022, a judge authorized federal investigators to search his home on Matta Avenue.

According to court documents, investigators found suspected drugs in the toilet, clear plastic bags spread across the bathroom, and a white powdery substance on and around the toilet.

 

Ohio BCI lab analysis identified the substance found in the toilet as 3 grams of a mixture of crack cocaine. The substance on the bathroom floor was identified as 1.74 grams of a drug mixture, including Tramadol, cocaine, heroin, para-Fluorofentanyl (a fentanyl analogue), and fentanyl.

In addition to the drugs, court documents also say investigators found three guns in the master bedroom, as well as "scores of additional ammunition and multiple magazines" in the basement. 

The guns included a rifle with a "high-capacity, two-drum magazine" with one bullet in the chamber. The other guns were a 9 mm pistol and 10 mm pistol. Both also had loaded magazines with rounds in the chambers.

 

Investigators also noted a digital scale, a kilogram press, and 53 grams of a "cutting agent."

The affidavit explains a kilogram press is "used by drug dealers to compress powder drugs into a brick form. Drug dealers do this after 'cutting' the drug (diluting the drug by adding a nondrug substance, such as baby powder, to it) to artificially increase the amount of substance they have available to sell and, in turn, increase their profits. The drug dealers then compress the “cut” substance to make it appear that they had not diluted the drugs, but were, instead, selling drugs directly from a compressed 'brick' of drugs, which is how powder drugs are transported from cartel-level dealers."

 

May was scheduled to go before a federal judge Friday morning following his arrest.