More than a dozen people looking to buy heroin in Reading on Monday got more than they bargained for.<\/p>\n
Members of the Berks County district attorney’s drug task force, the Reading Police Department’s vice unit and Pennsylvania State police served a warrant at 18 Mulberry St.<\/p>\n
They went there upon learning that several street-level dealers were distributing packets of heroin from the home, officials said.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the investigation in October, undercover detectives bought heroin worth between $30 and $60 from three different people at that home, officials said.<\/p>\n
One of those people, identified by detectives as Rafael Machado-Machado, 42, of the 900 block of Court Street, was arrested Monday. He was charged with possession, possession with intent to deliver and delivery of heroin.<\/p>\n
A second alleged dealer, identified as Melvin Ruiz-Caquias, was arrested Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The third suspect, whose name has not been released, remains at large.<\/p>\n
Detectives said they also seized from the home 12 packets of heroin, 13 packets of cocaine, numerous empty syringes and approximately $1,500 in cash.<\/p>\n
After the warrant was served, undercover agents posed as drug dealers and sold purported packets of heroin to arriving customers.<\/p>\n
The suspects arrested and charged with criminal attempt to possess heroin were identified by detectives as:<\/p>\n
Carlos Rosario, 33, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Francisco Perez, 54, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Ernesto Serrano, 35, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Israel Baez, 45, of Reading;<\/p>\n
William Rodrigues, 39, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Delano Bortz, 50 (no known address);<\/p>\n
Jose Anibal Cruz, 31, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Joseph Travis Curry, 31, of Mount Penn;<\/p>\n
Robert Olley, 25 (no known address);<\/p>\n
Julius Nathan Flynn, 62, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Nancy Prince, 49, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Jay Charles Reisinger, 52, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Mark E. Gram, 47, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Jose Luis Garcia Jr., 38, of Reading;<\/p>\n
Jamie Serrano-Rosario, 46, of Birdsboro;<\/p>\n
Edwin Ramos-Vega, 42, of Reading<\/p>\n
Francisco Perez was also charged with aggravated assault on a police officer for biting a hand of an arresting detective, officials said. The detective did not require any medical treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a dozen people looking to buy heroin in Reading on Monday got more than they bargained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-231704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}