A Tarentum couple was arrested on felony drug charges after police raided a home where they were living and found heroin and cash that included bills marked for an undercover drug buy, police said.
Michael Joseph Spears, 29, and Kelly Flemming, 28, of the 100 block of Curtis Street, were each charged with felony possession of drugs with the intent to deliver as well as possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
They are being detained in the Allegheny County Jail after their bail was denied by District Judge Carolyn Bengel because they are considered a danger to the community, according to court records. They face preliminary hearings on the charges before the judge on Wednesday.
Police arrested the pair while agents from the state Attorney General’s Drug Task Force were executing a search warrant at their home on April 22, according to a criminal complaint filed in support of the arrests.
Agents detained Spears and Flemming while they searched the home, where they found 176 stamp bags of suspected heroin in a basement bedroom along with a digital scale and material used to package drugs for sale, the complaint said.
Another woman who was in the house when police arrived was detained but not charged, according to the complaint.
Police said a portion of the drugs that were seized were field tested and came back positive for heroin. Two cellphones that investigators believe were used to make drug transactions also were confiscated during the raid, the complaint said.
