Heroin hidden inside can of baby formula in New Kensington, PA apartment

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New Kensington police and state drug agents say they found heroin packets hidden inside a can of baby formula when they raided a New Kensington apartment.

The raid on Constitution Boulevard Thursday turned up about 9.5 grams of uncut, loose heroin, six pieces of crack cocaine, two baggies of marijuana and more than 1,300 individual packets of heroin, according to police. About a quarter of the heroin — 325 packets — was inside a baby formula can found in the apartment. A baby was in a bedroom in the apartment when police raided, officers wrote in criminal complaints filed in the case.

Police also allegedly found a pistol hidden in the couch.

Michael Todd Lasko, 28, and Yazmene Dionna Bassett, 23, both from New Kensington, and Antoine D. Drew, 41, of Chicago, are accused of multiple drug offenses and child endangerment. Lasko was wearing a pretrial electronic ankle bracelet when arrested.


https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/police-heroin-hidden-inside-can-of-baby-formula-in-new-ken-apartment/

[pansypoo53219]

1. the drug war is prohibition stupid.

[Harker]

2. As are people who endanger children

and others by keeping guns and drugs lying around unsecured.

[marble falls]

3. Because making drugs illegal with severe punishment creates high paying jobs for ...

violent armed people.

[Harker]

4. Yes. It's a vicious circle.

It saddens me that children so often wind up victims and casualties.

[marble falls]

5. Children always are. Taking them away from their parents seems as likely to ruin ...

their lives further as it is to make it better for them.