PD: Woman Let Felon Sell Heroin, Narcotics From Apartment In Exchange For Drugs, Cash

A city woman who allowed a felon sell narcotics and heroin from her Main Street apartment in exchange for money and drugs was arrested, along with the dealer, on multiple drug sales, possession and related charges, according to Middletown Police.

On Jan. 11 at 8 p.m., narcotics officers served a search warrant on Tyrone Mercer, 50, of Liberty Street, at an apartment on the 56-564 block of Main Street after it was discovered the resident, Deborah A. Allocca, 54, allows multiple different men to sell heroin and narcotics from her apartment, the report says.

Moreover, it says, she allowed Mercer to live with her and sell heroin in exchange for money and heroin. Mercer is a felon with convictions for assault, failure to appear, operating under suspension, interfering with police, risk of injury to minor, burglary, criminal trespass and probation violation.

Police entered the apartment and found Mercer in the bedroom with his wife. Allocca told officers she had been allowing Mercer to live there for a few days and only smokes marijuana and narcotics prescribed to her, and knows nothing of other drugs in the house. 

Inside Mercer's sneakers was a plastic bag with three bundles, each with 10 wax bags of heroin packaged for sale and the other sneaker had more plastic bags, the report says, and a backpack with 10 wax bags of heroin and a cell phone that constantly rang.

The report says detectives found a Newport cigarette box with a glass crack pipe and spoon with residue, hypodermic needles and another crack pipe in a Cheyenne cigarette box.

One of the women police interviewed said she had seen narcotics activity and had been sleeping there "off and on" for a few days because she was homeless. Also, a neighbor witnessed the activity, too, police say. 

Allocca was charged with non-student possessing drug paraphernalia near school, sale of controlled substances by a non-drug-dependent person and conspiracy; and Mercer for non-student possessing drug paraphernalia near a school, possession with intent to sell, distribution of controlled substances less than 1,500 feet from school, and possession of controlled substances.