Drug Sales From Bensalem Apartment Complex Shut Down: Police

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —The Bensalem Township Police Department said it has shut down drug sales taking place in the Bucks Meadows apartment complex and charged two men in the country illegally with the crime.

The Bensalem Township Police Special Investigations Unit executed a search warrant at a Bucks Meadows apartment Tuesday that resulted in the recovery of two pounds of methamphetamines, two ounces of cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin (mushrooms), $1,364 in cash, digital scales, and packaging material consistent with the sales and manufacturing of controlled substances.

Police said the search warrant was executed at 3131 Knights Rd. at Bucks Meadows Apartment, #5-11.

At the time of the execution of the search warrant, Ramiro Murillo Garcia and Wilfredo Sanchez were taken into custody without incident.

Police said Garcia and Sanchez are both in the United States illegally and have been charged with two counts of manufacturing, delivering, possessing with intent to deliver a controlled substance, conspiracy, and related charges.

The investigation began with an anonymous tip about the sale of narcotics in the Bucks Meadows complex, police said.

The Bensalem unit conducted surveillance of the location for several weeks and witnessed numerous drug transactions at apartment #5-11.

The “customers” arrived on foot and by vehicle and were comprised of people from various neighborhoods in and around Bucks County.

Garcia and Sanchez were arraigned by District Justice Terry Hughes Tuesday.

Both were remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of 10 percent of $200,000 bail.