Police: Contraband, crack currency seized in drug raid
CLAY TWP — A Michigan man is one of two people behind bars on six-figure bail after state police vice officers said they found narcotics, currency and other contraband from a township home.
The evidence, which included suspected crack cocaine, was seized last week when a search warrant was executed at the house on Queens Junction Road, authorities said.
Deandre J. Bogan, 21, of Eastpointe, Mich. and Michael J. Gladd, 49, who lives at the home, were both arrested and arraigned Friday on felony charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.
Additionally, they were arraigned on misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance, conspiracy and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bogan and Gladd are in Butler County Prison on $250,000 bond and $100,000 bond, respectively.
The arrests culminated an investigation by the police vice unit that led to a sealed search warrant that was issued Thursday, authorities said. The state police Special Emergency Response Team was called to assist in serving the warrant around 6 a.m. Friday.
Officers found the defendants in different bedrooms. In the bedroom where Bogan was found, police said, the search turned up a baggie with about 30 grams of suspected crack.
Among the other evidence seized from that room was a digital scale, about $2,700 in currency and four cell phones.
Police said they found two baggies of suspected crack, a bottle of unspecified pills and a cell phone in the bedroom Gladd was in.
Preliminary hearings for Bogan and Gladd are scheduled for Jan. 28 at the office of District Judge Lewis Stougton in Chicora. Online court records did not list attorneys for either defendant.
