A police investigation into alleged drug dealing at the Liberty Park Apartments revealed a network of apartment occupants working in conjunction with one another to sell crack, heroin, prescription drugs and narcotics such as Oxycodone, according to police.
Ansonia police Thursday made the first in an expected series of arrests involving narcotics sales happening at the apartment complex.
Police said buyers would arrive in the area and wait for someone from the network to come outside and deliver the drugs.
The Liberty Park Apartments are a complex of 56 apartments located between North Main Street, Third Street and Liberty Street.
After an extensive investigation, search warrants were obtained for apartments number 14, 20, 32 and 54, as well as 13 Third Street and 15 Third Street, police said in a prepared statement.
The first arrest was made Thursday at 6 a.m. after police executed a search warrant.
Yolande Gillard, 56, of 14 Liberty Street, was charged on two warrants with illegally supplying a prescription drug, sale of prescription drug or narcotic, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics, possession within 1500 feet of a school, and risk of injury to a minor.
Based on what officers observed at the scene, he was also charged with possession of narcotics and failure to keep drugs in the original container, police said.
He was held on a total of $35,000 bond was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at Derby Superior Court.
Other agencies that assisted in the searches Thursday morning include the Drug Enforcement Agency, Derby, Shelton, Stratford, and Meriden police and the Southwest Region No. 2 Special Response Team.
The Special Response Team is made of officers from Milford, Ansonia, Orange, and Woodbridge who respond to high risk search warrants, barricaded suspects and hostage rescues, said Lt. Andrew Cota. He said they could be considered a SWAT team.
