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SWAT team arrests two for allegedly dealing meth
A calm, breezy morning on Norwalk Street was shattered today with the sound of splitting wood as the Grand Junction Police Department SWAT team split open the front door of two suspected meth dealers’ home.
Immediately following the batter-ram entrance, a dozen heavily armed SWAT team officers filed into the home of Sonia Mullins, 3343 Norwalk St., shortly after 11 a.m. As the police ducked inside, shouts rang out and two dogs and a cat scurried outside onto the street.
After clearing the house, whose entryway was littered with pieces of the front door, officers arrested Mullins and Jason Thomas on suspicion of methamphetamine possession and check fraud.
Meanwhile officers with the Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit entered the $343,000 Northridge Estates home and began searching for drugs.
“By tweaker standards, this is a very clean home,” one officer said, surveying the two-story, three-bedroom home and its back yard, complete with a pool and swing set.
The unit’s initial sweep of the home turned up two small bags of suspected methamphetamine, totaling about half a gram of the crystalline powder.
Officers found one of the plastic bags perched atop a notebook filled with drawings by one of the home’s two children. Neither child was home at the time of the search.
“This was great. This is what we live for,” Sgt. Kevin Imbriaco said, congratulating the Street Crimes Unit on a successful raid.
Read more overnight on GJSentinel.com or in Saturday’s issue of The Daily Sentinel.
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