Crime & Safety

Danbury Youth Coach Charged In Drug Investigation: Report

​Two people, one of them a Police Athletic League youth basketball coach, have been charged in a drug investigation according to a report.

DANBURY, CT — Two people, one of them a Danbury Police Athletic League youth basketball coach, have been charged in a drug investigation according to a report.

The Danbury News Times reported Samuel Perkins and Kayla Martin, both of Newtown, were charged in a Danbury Police investigation into drug sales.

A detective told the News Times that Perkins was a youth basketball coach and that officers had seen him leave the Danbury PAL building to make what police allege are drug transactions.

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