Governors Task Force Makes Significant Drug Arrest

Incident Location: Unit block of Chaucer Drive, Newark, Delaware, New Castle County

Date of Occurrence: Thursday, April 1, 2010, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Involved Parties: Johanna Garcia, 28, of Chaucer Drive, Newark, Delaware

Resume: Last evening, members of the DSP Governor’s Task Force responded to a home along the unit block of Chaucer Drive in Newark to conduct a Probation Compliance Check.

Officers arrived at the home and contacted probationer Johanna Garcia. During the course of this investigation, the following items were recovered from inside the home: suspected crack cocaine, suspected powder cocaine, suspected heroin, unused hypodermic needles, prescription narcotics, heroin packaging materials, other associated paraphernalia, a handgun and ammunition. Also, several thousand dollars in suspect drug money was also seized.

Ms. Garcia was transported back to Troop 2 where she was formally charged with the following felony offenses: Trafficking Cocaine, two counts of Possession with the Intent to Deliver Cocaine, Manufacturing a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance (Crack Cocaine), Possession with the Intent to Deliver a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance, Possession with the Intent to Deliver Heroin, Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, Possession of Ammunition by a Person Prohibited, Maintaining a Dwelling for Keeping Narcotics, Maintaining a Vehicle for Keeping Narcotics, Conspiracy 2nd, Possession of a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance (Misdemeanor) and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (misdemeanor).

Johanna Garcia was arraigned and committed to the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institute in lieu of a $656,500.00 secured bond.