Monessen man charged in heroin raid
MONESSEN – A Monessen man was charged with drug dealing after city police seized 33 bricks of heroin and money during a raid on his residence early Wednesday.
Police filed charges of heroin possession with intent to deliver, possession of marijuana and heroin possession against Kevin Lee Suber Jr., 26, of 321 1/2 Short St., Apt. 1, following the 8 a.m. raid, court records show.
Police had the house under surveillance for the past three weeks after receiving complaints from neighbors who suspected someone was dealing drugs from the location, according to the affidavit supporting the search warrant signed by District Judge Joseph Dalfonso.
Dalfonso arraigned Suber Wednesday afternoon and sent him to Westmoreland County jail on $250,000 bond, court records show.
Police also said investigators worked with an confidential informant within the past 48 hours who contacted Suber via cellphone to arrange a heroin purchase at 321 1/2 Short St., the court record alleges.
During the raid, police claim to have found 25 grams of marijuana in the top drawer of a nightstand in a bedroom. The bricks of heroin were discovered on top of a nightstand in a bedroom where Suber was taken into custody.
Police also found $400 in a shoe box in the residence and $779 was seized from the clothing Suber was wearing at the time of his arrest. Six cellphones also were seized.
Suber has a lengthy criminal record involving drug cases in Washington and Westmoreland counties.
His parole was revoked Friday in Westmoreland in a Monessen drug case in which he pleaded guilty in April 2015, online court records indicate.