BUTLER COUNTY, Pa. — Harrison Avenue in Butler Township is a dead-end road with just three houses. State police said they were watching one of the homes when they moved in and found a ton of drugs.
Galaxy Losser was moving into her new home on Harrison Avenue and said she saw several police cars next door. She had no idea what was going on.
“That’s what I thought: dead end street, no traffic coming through, no crazy people,” she said.
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Troopers said they were making controlled drug buys from the woman who lived inside. When detectives arrested Tammy Macefe they found 220 bricks of heroin, the equivalent of 11,000 stamp bags. They also found methamphetamine pills, digital scales, packaging materials and almost $14,000 in cash.
“It’s a pretty unassuming neighborhood where it was found so that’s what’s scary. It’s not always the place you expect. And the epidemic we’re in, the drug epidemic that we’re in, it’s real. It’s in our backyards,” Trooper Jim Long said.
Troopers said the heroin alone was worth about $60,000.