Members of the Essex County Sheriff's Department also found surveillance cameras plastered around the Stockman Street home during a Friday raid
IRVINGTON - Three people are being held after Essex County Sheriff's officers caught them hoarding more than $20,000 in heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs last week, authorities said.
According to Sheriff Armando Fontoura, members of his Bureau of Narcotics executed a search warrant at 69-71 Stockman Street at around 9 a.m. Friday.
Detectives had previously noticed that the house was plastered with surveillance cameras and heavily fortified, which Fontoura said required the officers to act quickly "to prevent the possible destruction of evidence."
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Once inside, police found the target of their investigation, 39-year-old William Annor, on his couch monitoring a number of closed circuit televisions. Two women, 54-year-old Lydia Brown and 34-year-old Quiana Diggs, were also inside.
A subsequent search uncovered 1,033 glassine envelopes of heroin stamped 'KING OF DEATH', at least 68 grams of methamphetamine, 22 grams of crack cocaine and 36 Xanax tablets stashed in plastic food containers around the home, according to Fontoura.
"Our seizure potentially disrupted a Tupperware party unlike any other," he said.
Officers also found a variety of drug packaging and processing materials, including a number of Goya bean cans with false bottoms, which may have been used for transporting the drugs.
The street value of the drugs seized during the investigation was estimated at approximately $20,000.
Annor, Brown and Diggs were each charged with drug possession and distribution offenses, as well as maintaining a fortified structure, possession of drug paraphernalia and conspiracy.
They were arraigned in Essex County Superior Court Monday morning. Annor was ordered held on $250,00 bond and Brown was issued a $50,000 cash bond. Diggs was ordered held on a $10,000 cash bond, but has since been released.
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