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Police Conduct Drug Raid of Public Housing Apartment

Special Services officers executed a search and seizure warrant Thursday morning inside a South Norwalk public housing project apartment and allegedly  found a substantial amount of marijuana there.
Lt. James Walsh, commander of the Special Services unit, said police obtained the warrant after a lengthy investigation found the tenant was allowing various drug dealers make sales in her Washington Village apartment.
Walsh said his officers found several bags of marijuana packaged for street sale, as well as a large bag of marijuana.
Officers charged the tenant, Briana Laws, 32, of 302 B Washington Village, with possession of marijuana; illegal manufacture, distribution or sale of one kilogram or more of a cannabis-type substance; illegal manufacture, distribution or sale of one kilogram or more of a cannabis-type substance within 1,500 feet of a public housing project; illegal manufacture, distribution or sale of one kilogram or more of a cannabis-type substance within 1,500 feet of a school; possession of drug paraphernalia; and possession of drug paraphernalia within 1,500 feet of a school.
Laws also was charged with risk of injury to a minor because there was a four-year-old boy in the apartment when police arrived. Police contacted the state Dept. of Children and Families to notify it of Laws' risk of injury charge.
Walsh said the Norwalk Housing Authority would be notified of Laws arrest since it has a policy of evicting tenants involved in drug sales.
Laws was held on $10,000 bond and was given a court date of 30.

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