Four Middletown Men Charged with Selling Drugs from Apartment

MIDDLETOWN, CT — Four Middletown men were arrested during a drug bust at a High Street apartment early last week.

Police executed a search and seizure warrant on Demar Boxley, 24, at his first-floor apartment on 429 High Street after receiving a tip about a tenant selling drugs from the residence.

Police noted that the apartment is well within 1,500 feet of Macdonough Elementary School.

Police entered the apartment at about 10:15 a.m. on May 3 and found Boxley in the living room along with three other men in the apartment.

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Boxley and the other men, Larry Burney, 36, Quashawn Foster, 21, and Steven Rios, 19, were all detained without incident, according to police.

Boxley was in possession of an expandable baton and a container with 2 grams of crack cocaine, $263 in cash and a cell phone in his pocket, according to the police report.

Police said other occupants had 1.3 grams of crack cocaine, 16 bags of suspected heroin and a burnt marijuana cigarette in their possession.

Detectives then conducted a thorough search of the apartment and found 11 other cell phones, digital scales with suspected crack cocaine and marijuana residue, a baggie of marijuana seeds, a mason jar with marijuana residue, a metal grinder, razors, a tablet, a laptop, a police scanner, Lorezapam anti-anxiety pills, $100 cash in a safe under a bed and other items.

“The amount of illicit drugs found in the residence was more than a typical user would have in their possession and was an amount that was indicative of an individual involved in the sale of the drug,” police wrote in the report.

Boxley, Burney, of no certain address, Foster, of Oak Street, and Rios, of Pearl Street, were all arrested on charges of possession of less than a ½ ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics with the intent to sell, possession of narcotics with the intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school zone, possession of a controlled substance and conspiracy to sell narcotics.

Foster faces an additional charge of interfering with an officer.

Boxley has prior convictions for multiple counts of breach of peace, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana and interfering with an emergency call, according to police.

Burney has prior convictions for disorderly conduct, misrepresentation of a controlled substance, sale of narcotics, possession of narcotics, operating under suspension, interfering with a police officer, possession of marijuana/hallucinogen, violation of probation, failure to appear and third-degree larceny, according to police.

Foster has prior convictions for criminal impersonation, interfering with an officer and failure to appear. Rios has no prior convictions, police said.