Couple bound for hosting drug deal
A Lind Street couple was bound to the grand jury Tuesday for allowing a drug deal to happen at their house.
The defendants, Thomas R. Hart and Jennifer Parson, were bound to the grand jury on charges of maintaining a residence for selling drugs and possession of drugs. Their case will be heard by a later session of the grand jury.
The binding comes after police executed a drug sting at the couple’s home recently, sending an operative in to buy drugs. According to DA Investigator Jason Rowland, the operative bought crack at the residence and while there discussed how the cocaine was being made into crack cocaine form. The conversation was caught on tape as lawmen were listening.
Rowland said a test tube where the crack was mixed, along with baggies for individual bagging of the crack, were found during a subsequent raid at the home. Also found were five marijuana plants. Lawmen did not contend the couple participated in the drug deal where the crack was sold, noting another man sold the crack to the operative. Instead, police maintain the couple knew of the drug deal and allowed it to happen at their house.