DONORA, Pa. — Police made five drug-related arrests over the weekend in Washington County, involving more than 60 stamp bags of heroin, according to Channel 11's news exchange partners at the Valley Independent.
Nicole Corle, 28, Sean Cowell, 43, and Lynette Dalla Valle, 53, were charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children.
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All three lived in the same house on First Street, police said.
Police attempted to pull over Corle, who was driving a gray Honda Accord with a burned-out headlight, but she refused to listen to commands to stop after she parked the vehicle in front of her house.
Police told Corle they had received complaints from neighbors on a number of people going in and out of the house.
According to the affidavit, after Corle was asked what she dropped off at her house, she said, “It was one bag of dope.”
She walked into the home with police and pulled out a stamp bag of heroin from behind a picture frame. When police found five more stamp bags containing heroin, Corle said they belonged to her mother, Dalla Valle.
Police searched the home with consent from Dalla Valle, and found 45 additional stamp bags of heroin, 19 hypodermic needles, 400 empty bags of heroin, 10 rubber bands and three tourniquets in a fire-safe box.
There were three children, ages 6, 9 and 10, in the room where the safe was found.
During a separate incident, police arrested Timothy Melzer, 47, of Munhall and Justin Ciletti, 34, of Donora after conducting a traffic stop and seeing drugs in the car.
Police found a brick of heroin on the floor below the driver’s seat, four bundles of 10 individual stamp bags of heroin below the passenger’s seat, suspected oxycodone pills, and a glass bowl with marijuana residue.
Melzer was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Ciletti was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and a traffic violation.