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February 8, 2019

Drug arrest made in McKeesport

By Mon Valley Independent

A 37-year-old McKeesport man is in custody following a drug bust at his home Wednesday.

McKeesport detectives and Allegheny County Probation officers executed a search warrant at Dennis Cash Jr.’s house on Versailles Avenue.

During the search, officers allegedly located four plastic baggies of marijuana, two glass jars of marijuana, four plastic baggies of Ecstasy pills, five plastic baggies of cocaine, one digital scale, $2,627 cash, one loaded black Taurus PT738 .380 cal. pistol with a magazine, two gray and black iPhones, one silver baggie of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. 

Cash was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Eugene F. Riazzi Jr. on three counts of possession with intent to deliver, three counts of possession of a controlled substance, and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia, receiving stolen property and persons not to possess firearms.

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