WESTFIELD – Police got some heroin off the streets this week with three arrests of two alleged users and an alleged dealer.
On Tuesday just before 4 p.m., Gilka M. Rolon-Arroyo, 21, of 43 Washington St. and Daryn M. Sampson, 32, of the same address, were arrested on drug charges after officers served a search warrant, according to police logs and Westfield Police Capt. Hipolito Nunez.
Rolon-Arroyo was the target of the police investigation and was charged with possession of a Class A substance and distribution of a Class A substance.
Rolon-Arroyo was in possession of three “empty stack rappers,” according to court records and was in possession of over 50 bags of heroin along with pre-recorded buy money.
“She was not in possession of instruments used to ingest heroin,” nor were there empty heroin bags in her bedroom, which indicates she was distributing but not using, according to court records.
Rolon-Arroyo was released on $500 cash bail after being arraigned in Westfield District Court on Wednesday.
Sampson was charged with possession of a Class A drug (heroin), possession of a Class B drug (cocaine) and “knowingly (being) present where heroin is kept,” according to police and court records.
“While searching the apartment in the bathroom, detectives located 13 bags of heroin along with syringes and a container of water together,” as stated in Det. James Renaudette’s report.
The bags were stamped “Louis Vuitton,” the same as the bags found in Rolon-Arroyo’s bedroom.
Sampson told police he is a heroin user.
He was released on $100 cash bail after being arraigned in Westfield District Court on Wednesday.
Sampson and Rolon-Arroyo are due back in court on March 25.
On Wednesday night shortly before 7 p.m., police arrested Ian M. Parent, 29, of no known address on charges of trespass and possession of a Class A drug.
Parent was pacing and interfering with vehicle traffic in front of Walmart, located at 141 Springfield Road, from which he had been trespassed last month, according to Westfield Police Officer Michael Gibbons’s report.
After arresting Parent, “I opened a pouch to check for weapons and found 3 small bags that I believed to be heroin. The bags were stamped with ‘Louis Vuitton.’
“There were approximately 50 opened (used) bags inside,” Gibbons wrote.
Parent was released on his own recognizance after he was arraigned in Westfield District Court on Thursday and is due back in court on March 28.
Staff Writer Christine Charnosky can be reached at [email protected]
