COLUMBUS – Columbus police seized drugs, weapons and cash and shuttered a reported drug house during a raid on several houses believed to be connected to drug activity on the South and East sides of the city, police said.
In response to reports of a known drug house affecting the Reeb-Hosack, Hungarian, Vassor, and Merion neighborhoods, an investigation led to several narcotics houses being searched on Sept. 6th by patrol officers along with personnel with the Columbus Division of Police Zone 5 South Central Safe Streets team, the Organized Crime Bureau: Narcotics, Criminal Intelligence Unit, known as INTAC), Fairfield County SWAT, and the Columbus office of city code enforcement, Lt. Kenneth Kropp, Safe Streets Coordinator, said.
Pollice executed 10 search warrants for multiple locations and confiscated three rifles, a shotgun and five handguns, as well as a “Glock switch” automatic conversion device.
Officers also seized fentanyl, marijuana, drug manufacturing equipment and $8,500 in cash.
Two vehicles were impounded and a problem residence in the 200 block of Innis Avenue was boarded up and placarded.
The Columbus City Attorney’s Office, Columbus Public Health, and the Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area also participated in th4e investigation, Kropp said.