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Ogdensburg police make bust following parolee checkup; variety of drugs, paraphernalia found

Posted 5/15/15

OGDENSBURG -- A parolee residence check led to multiple charges against three people after police allegedly discovered a variety of drugs in Ogdensburg. During the early morning hours of Thursday, …

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Ogdensburg police make bust following parolee checkup; variety of drugs, paraphernalia found

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OGDENSBURG -- A parolee residence check led to multiple charges against three people after police allegedly discovered a variety of drugs in Ogdensburg.

During the early morning hours of Thursday, the Ogdensburg Police Department assisted a New York State parole officer with a residence check at the home of Lee A. Loffler, 31, of 705 Pickering St.

They allegedly found crack cocaine packaged for sale, four types of pills including Soma, Clonazepa, and two types of Suboxone, a small quantity of marijuana, as well as drug paraphernalia used in the packaging and sale of narcotics and scales.

Loffler was charged with third-degree criminal possession and sale of a controlled substance, four counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument and second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia.

Police say the sale charge is separate from the Thursday alleged incident, stemming from his alleged sale of crack cocaine on an earlier date.

Derrick J. Bush, 33, of 705 Pickering St. and Andrew J. Jacobs, 21, of 809 Main St., were each charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Bush was allegedly in possession of Soma. Andrew Jacobs allegedly had Suboxone.

Loffler was arraigned in Ogdensburg City Court and remanded to the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, Canton, without bail.

They were each released on appearance tickets, answerable in Ogdensburg City Court on May 21.

Bush was turned over to the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, who was wanted on a bench warrant for failure to appear on a prior charge of criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.

The investigation is ongoing, and further arrests are possible.

New York State Parole was assisted by the Ogdensburg Police Department’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit and county Sheriff’s Office members of the county Drug Task Force.