ANSONIA — Police charged a 22-year-old man with weapons and drug charges after raiding a residence on Fourth Street Thursday morning.
According to a prepared statement from police, Ansonia officers and the Connecticut State Police Emergency Response Team had obtained a search warrant to enter the residence at 4:45 a.m. Sept. 30.
Police did not elaborate on the investigation that led to obtaining the search warrant.
But police said inside the residence they found a stolen handgun, along with crack cocaine, Suboxone and drug paraphernalia. Suboxone is a drug usually prescribed by doctors to treat opioid dependence. The gun had been reported stolen to state police in 2017, according to the prepared statement.
Zaire Flowers, of Ansonia, was charged with theft of a firearm, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of drug paraphernalia within 1,500 feet of a school. Flowers was held on a $50,000 bond. Police didn’t specify which school is nearby, but a Google search shows a preschool program operating on Fourth Street.
Flowers also has charges pending in Derby stemming from a Jan. 30, 2020 arrest during which he was charged with two felonies: carrying a pistol without a permit and the illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle.
