Crime & Safety
Pawtucket Search Warrant Leads To Guns, Coke, Meth, Fentanyl And 2 Arrests: Cops
The search warrant was executed at a Pawtucket apartment, police said.

PAWTUCKET, RI — A search warrant executed Tuesday at a Pawtucket apartment led to the arrest of two men and the seizure of pistols with automatic switches, cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine, police said.
The Pawtucket police conducted the search of the Newport Avenue apartment in conjunction with the Providence Police Department and the Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force , according to a media release.
"As a result of the search, two pistols with automatic switches, one being a ghost gun, two high-capacity magazines," and cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine were found in the residence, the release said.
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The two men arrested — Anthony Folcarelli, 30, and Davon Silva, 29 — were charged with intent to deliver cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine, keeping or maintaining a common nuisance, possession of a firearm while delivering or manufacturing narcotics, manufacturing, selling, purchasing or possessing a machine gun, modification of a semiautomatic weapon, possession of a ghost gun, large capacity feeding devices prohibited, and conspiracy, according to the release.
Folcarelli was also wanted on a Providence Police Department arrest warrant, the release said, and Silva "will be charged with possession of a firearm prohibited — person convicted and
domestic simple assault and domestic disorderly conduct from a prior domestic-related incident."
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