Cops, community work together, resulting in arrests, guns, drugs

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Cops, community work together, resulting in arrests, guns, drugs

By DAMON C. WILLIAMS
Philadelphia Daily News

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When the community works with the police to eradicate the scourges of drugs, guns and crime, good things can happen.
Working from tips, 9-1-1 calls and information from concerned neighbors, police officers yesterday were able to showcase a haul of illegal narcotics, thousands of dollars and a number of guns at a news conference.

"The majority of these guns would have been guns of [future] crime if we did not confiscate them," said Capt. Debra Frazier, commanding officer of the narcotics field unit. "One individual just tossed the AK [assault rifle]; he couldn't care less."

Frazier was joined by members of her narcotics squad, including Chief Inspector Teresa Clark and Inspector Alice D. Mulvey, at the news conference at the Arsenal, 5301 Tacony St.

Ten people were arrested Tuesday and yesterday at three locations - 6th Street near Bristol, Hunting Park; Dakota Street near 25th, North Philadelphia; and Sweet Briar Road near Fairdale Street, in the Northeast - and in a car stop on 5th Street near Huntingdon, in North Philadelphia. About $10,000 worth of cocaine was confiscated in the car stop, Frazier said.

"The cocaine was flattened and thinly packed," Frazier said. "So thin that it could be carried in a looseleaf binder to move drugs throughout the city."

All told, the narcotics unit confiscated $100,000 worth of heroin and more than $500,000 worth of cocaine, $70,000 in cash, an AK-47, a Kel-Tec machine gun, three shotguns and six sidearms, police said.

Narcotics officers also seized crack cocaine and marijuana.

The guns will be test-fired by the ballistics unit to ascertain if they were used in other crimes, Frazier said.

"With the help of the community," Clark said, "we were able to make these confiscations and arrests. We need people to give us tips."

Added Frazier: "When I see such a presentation, it shows that we have a well-working partnership and that we're going in the right direction. Residents should see that we're trying to raise the quality of life, and that it's not just the police.

"The police and community can work together, and are working together well."

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Police raid yields drugs, guns, cash
By David O'Reilly

Inquirer Staff Writer

Crediting tips from citizens who have had enough of crime, Philadelphia police yesterday showed off an impressive heap of illicit drugs, guns and money gathered from across the city in just one day, along with a new way drug dealers are hiding cocaine.
Chief Inspector Teri Clark of the police narcotics bureau stood behind a table bearing what she said were $400,000 worth of cocaine and marijuana, $80,000 in cash, and 15 weapons, including 10 handguns and an AK-47 "pitched out a window" during a police raid.

"Here's what's possible when we work with the community," said Capt. Debra Frazier of the narcotics bureau.

Frazier also displayed a kilogram of powder cocaine packed in flat sheets about the size of typing paper and about three-quarters of an inch thick. She said her department had never seen that before and speculated the sheets were packed inside books or envelopes to avoid suspicion.

The officers said all the weapons would be tested to determine if they had been used in crimes.

Clark said the exceptionally large seizure of illicit goods in one day was not the result of some new departmental approach to street crime, but rather the by-product of "citizen cooperation."

"We need tips," she said.

Clark also credited the cooperation of various units within the Police Department.
Contact staff writer David O'Reilly at 215-854-5723 or doreilly@phillynews.com.