Crime & Safety

PD: Two Charged With Crack, Pot Possession After Alleged Wrestling Incident

Middletown police responding to a call of four guys, including one from Portland, fighting were told they were just "joking around," but the drugs found by a canine on two of them were no laughing matter.

Two individuals, one from Portland and another from Middletown, are facing charges of drug possession and sales after officers investigating a report of four men fighting in the city's North End turned up cocaine and marijuana, according to

On Aug. 12 at 10:02 p.m., police were called to a home on Johnson Street for four men fighting. The report says officers saw some men at Spring and Prospect streets with a person in a car trying to leave.

One man covered in sweat and out of breath, the report details, said he was wrestling and there was no problem; they were just "joking around." Officers saw another unidentified man in a ripped shirt with blood on it, which was determined to be from another incident. Both were released.

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Kirel Iai'zhon Cherry, 22, of Stoneycrest Drive was driving the Lexus ES3 borrowed from a friend, police report. The report says a baggie of marijuana was found on the street with 7.5 grams inside. Cherry admitted to buying it earlier in the night and, the report says, he had $388 in cash.

A police dog found 2.5 more grams of marijuana on the ground and two bags of crack totaling .8 grams and another. 2 grams in the car, according to police.

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Cherry admitted the single pack of crack was his; and Willie Watford, 23, of Airline Avenue, Portland, told offers the marijuana was his, but not the crack, police report.

Cherry was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and non-student possessing drugs near school; Watford for illegal sale of a controlled substance, possession with intent to sell, distribution of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of less than 4 ounces marijuana.


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