Three charged in Hamilton heroin bust

By Andrew Scott Pocono Record Writer

Three people are charged after heroin, marijuana and other items were found Wednesday in the Hamilton Township home of two of the defendants.

Michael A. Duffy, 38, in whose Mountain Vista Road home the drugs were found, and Larry Lee Kitchell, 38, of Albrightsville, are charged with possession with intent to deliver and other offenses. Sherri Ann Daoust, 30, who shared the home with Duffy at the time, is charged with possession of drugs and paraphernalia.

All three are awaiting district court hearings.

Monroe County District Attorney's Office detectives and the Monroe County Drug Task Force learned Duffy had been receiving large quantities of heroin at his home, located west of Route 33 and south of Deer Run Trailer Park in northern Hamilton Township, and then selling it in the area, an affidavit states. Authorities had a confidential informant conduct a surveilled drug transaction with Duffy.

Authorities then executed a search warrant at Duffy's home at 6:05 a.m. Wednesday, finding him, Kitchell and Daoust in the house at the time, the affidavit states.

Authorities found bundles and individual packets of heroin, a wizzinator used in providing drug-free urine, several cell phones and $210 in U.S. currency in the room Duffy and Daoust shared. In the room Kitchell occupied at the time were found five partial bricks of heroin wrapped in paper, an additional partial brick of heroin in a cigarette pack wrapper on the bedside table and a safe containing more heroin, heroin-packaging materials, a scale, a crack pipe, a dime baggie of marijuana, cigarettes and other items, the affidavit states.

In the kitchen and living room were found used syringes, full and empty packets of heroin, another scale and nine other cellphones.

When later questioned in custody, Daoust refused to talk without an attorney present.

Kitchell said the safe found in the room he had been occupying at the time was his, the affidavit states. He said he had gotten the heroin in Paterson, N.J., and supplied it to people, most recently Duffy and Daoust, who needed it.

On Kitchell's phone were found text messages regarding heroin sales.

Duffy initially denied ownership of any of the heroin, claiming he was clean, but later said he would test positive when Monroe County Children and Youth Services arrived with a request to screen his urine, the affidavit states. He admitted planning to use the wizzinator when it came time for him to be drug-tested in court.

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