CITY OF LOCKPORT: Search warrant leads to drug possession charges

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March 7, 2008

Anonymous The Lockport Union-Sun %26 Journal Fri Mar 07, 2008, 01:23 PM EST

Three people were arrested after the Niagara County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant in an apartment at Urban Park Towers.

Dorthea A. King, 24, 77 Main St., Apt. 1013, and Sherman E. Carson, 25, 1205 Union St., Apt. 7, Rochester, were each charged Friday morning with third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Carson and King were allegedly found with cocaine inside the apartment.

Rakeem Golson, 17, 19 Evans St., was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after he was allegedly seen leaving the apartment.

Officers reportedly found Golson in possession of cocaine.

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