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Four arrested in raid
By MARLY KOSINSKI
POSTED: March 18, 2010
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WARREN - Law enforcement officers confiscated cash and heroin during a
raid Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Jeff Orr of the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force said
the raid was conducted at 2436 Kenwood Drive S.W. after several weeks of
investigation following several anonymous tips.
Arrested during the raid were:
n Dexter Douglas, 39, of the Kenwood Drive address. He is charged with
felony drug trafficking, possession of drug paraphernalia and drug abuse.
Orr said Douglas has a Social Security card issued from Michigan and a
California driver's license. He said Douglas is considered a "mid-level"
dealer.
n Andrew Hall, 25, of Ravenna, drug abuse instruments and carrying a
concealed weapon;
n Joseph Mikulski, 26, of Ravenna, possession of drug abuse instruments; and
n Kenneth Ramsey, 22, of Ravenna, possession of drug abuse instruments and
drug abuse.
All four suspects will be arraigned today in Warren Municipal Court.
Orr said 10 grams of heroin worth approximately $2,000, a small amount of
marijuana and $3,000 in cash was recovered during the raid. He also sad that
as officers arrived on scene, they saw Ramsey purchasing heroin from
Douglas.
Douglas tried to conceal the purchase by throwing a bindle of heroin into a
vehicle where Ramsey was a passenger, according to Orr.
While conducting the search on Kenwood, a 2010 Dodge Challenger pulled up,
and the driver, Hall, and a passenger, Mikulski, remained in the vehicle but
called Douglas to buy some heroin. Police removed the suspects from the
vehicle and recovered syringes and $460 in cash, according to a report.
Police also found a revolver in a box under the driver's seat and a long
hunting knife stuffed between the seats, the report states.
Orr said the investigation, arrests and search warrant are a continuation of
TAG's street cleaning project to reduce the impact of heroin in the city.
The task force consists of officers from the Howland Police Department, and
Trumbull and Ashtabula sheriff's offices. Assisting the task force with
Tuesday's raid was the U.S. Marshals, Trumbull County Adult Probation
Department and Warren police.
In November, TAG arrested 15 people in four simultaneous raids of homes
where heroin was being sold. Orr said at the time that police found a
Detroit connection while investigating the case. During that raid, police
seized 600 bindles of heroin worth $15,000, as well as pills, firearms and
marijuana.
In January, two men from Detroit were shot on Washington Street N.E. One of
them, Michael Travis, 30, died from his injuries, and another, Christopher
Davis, 39, was wounded. Both men were free on bond after being arrested in
one of the November raids, according to Tribune Chronicle archives.
Tina Milner, a member of the Southwest Warren Neighborhood Association and
coordinator for the city's Weed & Seed grant, said the SWNA distributed
yellow "hot spot" cards in the fall in the area where Tuesday's raid
occurred.
"Some of the neighbors told us there was dealing going on and they could
hear gunshots at night," Milner said.
Kenwood is in the grant's targeted area and grant writer Rick George drove
the neighborhood over the weekend to identify problem areas, she said.
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