MIDDLESEX TWP — Police arrested two men and a woman near the Middlesex-Penn Township line Monday night after they stumbled upon specially adapted clothing used to smuggle drugs.

Within a secret compartment in the lining of a denim jacket, Middlesex Township Patrolman Bryan Costanzo uncovered the hidden stash — 448 stamp bags of suspected heroin and a plastic baggie containing 4.6 grams of crack cocaine.

“It was a pretty big find,” Costanzo said Tuesday. “It's a pretty good arrest.”

But that wasn't all. Even before the drug-stuffed jacket was revealed, police say they turned up 80 bags of heroin under the same garment in a car that Costanzo had stopped for a traffic violation on Route 8. A bag of suspected marijuana was also stuffed in one of the pockets. Eventually during that search, police recovered more evidence including a .45-caliber pistol — loaded with a magazine clip — that was reported stolen last year from Johnstown.

Charged with felony drug possession are Tyree J. Freeman, 39, of Butler; his live-in girlfriend Kristina L. Martin, 46; and his cousin Andrew Edwards, 30, of Johnstown. Freeman and Edwards are in the Butler County Prison on $100,000 bail each. Martin is jailed on $10,000 bail.

Get a complete report in Wednesday's Butler Eagle.