By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, April 9, 1992
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A 29-year-old woman has been jailed on charges that she ran a crack house and endangered her 9-year-old daughter’s welfare, police said.
Bretna Roberts, who was being held in the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday on $27,000 bail, was arrested at her 460 Orchard St. home Sunday by officers responding to an anonymous tip, said Police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley.
Officer Timothy Torell, assisted by Detective Ernest Cunningham and Lt. John Delarosa, discovered when he arrived at the house that Roberts was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in Englewood Municipal Court on Jan. 29.
After a crack vial, a crack pipe, and a butane lighter fell out of Roberts pants pocket as she dressed to follow the officers, they searched the house and found several vials containing what police suspect to be crack. Some of the substances in the vials are suspected of being soap or some other form of imitation crack, police said.
They also found a plastic bag with a white, powdery substance that they suspect is cocaine; a jar and spoon used to cook cocaine powder until it crystallizes into rock cocaine, and marijuana cigarettes.
Tinsley said the materials were sent to the state police laboratory for testing.
Roberts also is charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of the Cleveland Elementary School.
In an incident on the same street five hours later, a motorist fired two shots into the front window of a house. Police said the two incidents may be related and are investigating.
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