PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Three men were arrested in connection with a large-scale drug trafficking operation in Pittsfield.
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According to the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office, an extensive investigation led to the arrests outside 30 Brown Street in Pittsfield on Tuesday afternoon. At around 12:25 p.m., law enforcement observed three suspects walking out of the home, 25-year-old Kareem Archibald , 33-year-old Maurice Simmons , both from Bronx, New York, and 22-year-old Jah’Rell J. Mayes of Pittsfield.
Archibald and Simmons complied with officers however Mayes ran away but was caught at 18 Oak Street. A search warrant was then conducted inside the home and officers recovered guns, ammunition, drugs, cash, and other items that indicated the house was used as a central location for drug dealing:
- Approximately 50 half packs (2,500 baggies) of heroin
- Black Sig Sauer 9mm loaded with eleven rounds
- Taurus Millennium .40 Caliber loaded with ten rounds
- Additional 9mm magazine with ten rounds of 9mm ammunition
- Additional fifty rounds of 9mm ammunition in a box
- Approximately $5,000 in a duffle bag
- Approximately $11,950 in a safe
- Approximately $26
- Two functioning digital scales