MILLVALE, Pa. — One man was taken into custody after police raided his home on Grant Street in Millvale.
Channel 11 was there as police and SWAT officers shut down the street while they were serving a search warrant.
According to the criminal complaint, police had their eye on the apartment for 18 months because they received so many complaints about drug activity.
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At one point, SWAT officers went inside the Subway restaurant across the street.
A worker at Subway told Channel 11 that a man inside the restaurant was handcuffed because he had been seen entering the apartment in question. Police later released that man.
Police said they found cocaine, crack and heroin inside the apartment they were searching and arrested the man who lived there, Lamont Willis II.
Police said Willis was on house arrest and had just been in court a few days prior. They said he told a judge he turned his life around.
Channel 11 looked into Willis' criminal background.
In 2017, he was charged with endangering the welfare of children, possession with intent to deliver and tampering with evidence.
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