Search warrant on Ambridge apartment yields large amount of drugs

AMBRIDGE, Pa. — Ambridge Police and narcotics agents from the Attorney General’s Office found a shocking amount of drugs inside an Ambridge, Beaver County apartment Wednesday.

Now, Michael Motton, from Ambridge, and Jalonte Williams, from Michigan, are behind bars.

“Are you serious? Wow!” said neighbor Dorothy Virginia Korrigan when she learned about the massive bust.

“It’s wild,” added fellow neighbor Drew Hodnick. “It’s right across the street from where I live. It’s crazy it’s so close to home.”

The major drug bust happened Wednesday afternoon at Ambridge Towers apartments at the corner of 5th Street and Duss Avenue.

“When I first moved to Ambridge in 1972, that building was awesome, actually my mother was called to live there, it was very nice back in the day, elderly folks, nice and very clean. It was really a nice place. I don’t know what happened all of a sudden,” Korrigan said.

Officers seized 14,000 Fentanyl pills, 110 grams of Fentanyl powder, 104 Xanax pills, 19 grams of crack cocaine, 26 grams of powder cocaine, and more than $2,700 cash.

“It’s definitely concerning, but what’re you going to do about it? It continues to happen,” Hodnick said.  “There’s been plenty of busts in Ambridge, plenty of busts all around Beaver County, it continues to happen. It’s a never-ending battle.”

Investigators originally went to the 6th floor apartment to arrest Motton on prior felony drug and firearms charges.

While inside, officers say they found Williams and some crack pipes in the living room.

According to the police report, during his arrest, Motton asked police to retrieve his cellphone from the bedroom.

That is where police found the large quantities of drugs.

“And that’s government housing,” Korrigan said. “Wow. You would think they would check the person out more before they would move in, wouldn’t you think so?”

Motton and Williams are being held at the Beaver County Jail, each unable to post more than $900,000 bail.

Both are due back in court next month.

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