Berwyn Police Blotter
Felony cocaine charges for woman with quick-stop visitors
September 8, 2008, 5:39 PM
Police received information from witnesses that a woman at 1239 Cuyler frequently came out of her basement apartment and approached cars, conducting brief transactions; the activity reportedly occurred at all hours. Officers went to the apartment and asked to speak to the woman. A young man was in the front of the apartment; police saw him reaching under a glass table and into a shoebox. A sergeant ordered him to put his hands in view and not to move. When backup officers arrived, police recovered the shoebox; it contained two glass crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia. The man and woman told police they had just “smoked up some crack.”
Meanwhile, police watched two men approach the south entrance of the apartment. Neither man had ID, and both admitted they came to buy crack.
After being read her rights, the woman told police she was dealing cocaine and would show them her stash. She pointed out a jewelry box containing clear plastic bags, with twelve individually-wrapped chunks of crack cocaine, as well as ten tinfoil packets of powder cocaine.
K-9 officer Epo sniffed the apartment and alerted to a nightstand and the coffee table. He also alerted to the front seat of a red Mercury Grand Marquis; pieces of crack were visible on the seats and floor.
According to police, Rose M. Decosola, 49, of 1239 Cuyler, was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of the same with intent to deliver.
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