Authorities charged six city residents in the Sunday afternoon drug bust.
NEWARK -- Police arrested six city residents and seized more than 2,500 envelops of heroin and hundreds of vials of cocaine in a drug bust Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Responding to numerous drug complaints just before 5 p.m. on Stratford Place, detectives said they spotted Furquan Thomas, who had an open arrest warrant, pulling clear vials from his fanny pack, according to Sgt. Ronald Glover, a spokesperson for the Newark Police Department.
According to police, the 23-year-old took off once he spotted the officers, dropped the glass vials and ran into an apartment on the fourth floor with five others inside.
Police searched the apartment and Thomas seizing 2,551 glassine envelops of heroin, 22 baggies of marijuana as well as 401 vials and 14 grams of cocaine, authorities said.
Thomas, Abdul Bryant, 19, Yasim Smith and Raekwan Gilmore, both 18, Lyonel Finklea, 29, and Samantha Brydie, 23, were all arrested on drug charges, Glover said.
The specific charges were not known.
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