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Police find hundreds of stamp bags of heroin, gun during drug bust

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NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Police found hundreds of stamp bags of heroin and a gun during a drug bust in New Kensington.

New Kensington detectives, the SWAT team and agents with the attorney general's office searched a house on North Street on Thursday.

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They uncovered more than 700 stamp bags of heroin.

“The main target of the investigation was actually a gentleman who was on state parole. He was on state parole for first-degree murder," said New Kensington Police Chief Bob Deringer.

Charles Jones was released from jail in February after serving more than two decades in state prison.

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Police said Jones was found hiding in a bathroom with Dandre Thornton. Investigators said heroin was lying on the hallway floor and more was found in the bathroom.

Police said they also found a loaded gun and ammunition in a bedroom where Jones was staying. The gun was registered to his girlfriend.

Jones can’t have a gun because he’s a convicted felon, but investigators say it was within reasonable reach of two kids who were also in the house at the time.

“And the gun was not locked up in a safe. It was on a nightstand in the master of bedroom in easy reach of any child who would’ve walked in that room," Deringer said said.

 
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