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Four Men Arrested in North Sea Drug Raid

Police say house was used for drug distribution.

Four men have been arrested following a raid early Wednesday morning on a North Sea house, where police said crack cocaine was being sold.

said the Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant at 599 Noyac Rd at around 3:50 a.m. and recovered evidence including crack cocaine, marijuana, pills, scales and packaging material.

Police said the four men who were arrested lived at the house.

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Kwame A. Opoku, 29, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third, fifth and seventh degrees, and criminally using drug  paraphernalia in the second degree.

Bernard T. Cooks, 29, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fourth degrees, criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree and unlawful possession of marijuana.

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Nathaniel L. Cooper, 31, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fifth degrees.

Karron D. Whidbee, 30, was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.

Opoku and Cooks were both in violation of parole and Whidbee is on probation, police said.

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