Police Find Cocaine, Assault Rifle Ammunition in Woman's Apartment

A middle-aged woman was arrested for allegedly selling cocaine out of her second-floor apartment on Warren Avenue after East Providence Police monitored her narcotics trade for over a month.

After receiving numerous complaints from neighbors, police searched of the house of the woman, later identified as Clavel Medina, 47, of 524 Warren Ave., at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 19.

They found Medina and her 16-year-old son, according to Sgt. Diogo Mello. She allegedly admitted to having drugs in the house and led police to the bedroom where she showed opened her dresser drawer that contained a blue nylon bag full of 71 grams of cocaine worth about $3,500 in street value, a scale and a box of black sandwich bags. They also located $760 in U.S. cash and 207 rounds of ammunition used to fire an AR-15 assault rifle and 10 shells for a shot gun. The ammunition allegedly belonged to an older son.

Medina was charged with manufacturing, possessing and intending to deliver cocaine. She is scheduled for an Aug. 1 bail hearing in Sixth Division District Court.

This is not Medina's first brush with drug trade, say police. Her husband, Rafael Medina, 55, is currently incarcerated in federal prison after police charged him with possessing 150 grams of cocaine and a hand gun in 2006.