Owner of New Berlin home targeted in drug raid pleads guilty
NEW BERLIN – The owner of a house that police crashed through in a late-June drug raid admitted in court to being a dealer and is looking at serving probation and attending treatment court.
Police originally charged the two people residing at the house, 24-year-old Adam Daring of 43 North Main St., New Berlin and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Courtney L. Champlin, with the highest level crimes in the case which included multiple felonies.
District Attorney Joseph McBride said Champlin played a more minor role in the drug activity and her case has been reduced to a misdemeanor charge and returned to the lower, Town of New Berlin Court.
Daring pleaded guilty to the top charge against him, third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class B felony, in a plea arrangement with prosecutors. The charge required Daring to admit he had “an intent to sell” the illegal substances, said McBride.
“Mr. Daring was involved in providing a house full of people with drugs, including heroin, which is a big problem in our local communities,” said McBride.
McBride said Daring had been in jail since his arrest and would be regularly tested in treatment court. If Daring tests positive during his probation, McBride said he could be sentenced to prison.
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