Cocaine lab discovered throughout from Park Metropolis Excessive, police say

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PARK CITY — A longtime resident of a home throughout from Park Metropolis Excessive College was arrested after Summit County sheriff’s deputies say he was producing crack cocaine.

Detectives, whereas serving a search warrant on March 8, discovered Ryan O’Niell Bertagnole in his driveway, detained and searched him. Police say the 60-year-old was discovered with medicine “inside 100 toes of a highschool and inside 100 toes of a home of worship,” in response to the police reserving affidavit.

Once they searched his home, they discovered supplies together with propane torches, baking soda, cooking pans, packaging supplies and cocaine — “generally used to synthesize cocaine powder into crack cocaine,” the affidavit states.

Close to the provides, police say they discovered a gun locker with an AR-15 fashion rifle, and a big fist-sized shard of methamphetamine, “considerably greater than only a typical consumer could be holding.”

Bertagnole has earlier felony expenses for possession of managed substances and is restricted from proudly owning firearms, in response to courtroom paperwork.

Police had beforehand raided the identical residence in 2013. Bertagnole’s 13-year-old daughter was on the home, and informed them she was “stunned that this did not occur sooner,” and that Bertagnole “is a drug vendor,” in response to earlier charging paperwork. He pleaded responsible to possessing marijuana with intent to distribute in April 2015.

Bertagnole was booked into the Summit County Jail Thursday for investigation of operation of a clandestine lab, distribution of a managed substance in a drug-free zone, being a restricted individual with a firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia.

In 2023, highschool crack cocaine use was at close to historic lows of 0.5% or much less in response to the College of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future Survey, The research additionally says that the “use of methamphetamine has declined to near-zero prevalence over the previous 20 years, with lifetime use at or under 0.6% in 2023.”

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