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.
“If you do this in our community, you will go to jail, you will get a felony conviction and we will be testing you. If you screw up you’ll go back jail,” he said.
Five others arrested in the raid were charged with misdemeanors and all were remanded to the county jail on bail amounts ranging from $1,000 to $500 at the time.
Just before dawn at about 5:50 a.m., June 23, a joint police force aiding a Town of New Berlin Police Department drug investigation served a “no-knock” search warrant at Daring’s two-story home in the village and arrested seven people for drug-related charges, seizing cash, weapons, marijuana and heroin, according to police.
New Berlin officer-in-charge Sgt. Dominick Commesso said the residence had been a “previous location of interest” for police and the arrests were the result of a six-month-long investigation.
Commesso said when police entered the home, they discovered the defendants sleeping after a night of partying. He said police had received a number of complaints about the residence over the last year, often involving late hour traffic and noise.
Police said they found powdered heroin on a table, apparently left out from the night before and a marijuana “grow-room” in the basement. Police seized over a dozen fledgling marijuana plants. They also allegedly discovered 22 packets of heroin and 36 grams of hash, along with a number of pipes, bongs, syringes and other paraphernalia. Police seized nearly $1,000 worth of suspected drug cash from the home, he said. They also reported removing several illegal knives and air pistols from the home.
The other co-defendants still have their cases pending in lower court and McBride said Daring was the only one who was facing a felony-level offense.
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.
“If you do this in our community, you will go to jail, you will get a felony conviction and we will be testing you. If you screw up you’ll go back jail,” he said.
Five others arrested in the raid were charged with misdemeanors and all were remanded to the county jail on bail amounts ranging from $1,000 to $500 at the time.
Just before dawn at about 5:50 a.m., June 23, a joint police force aiding a Town of New Berlin Police Department drug investigation served a “no-knock” search warrant at Daring’s two-story home in the village and arrested seven people for drug-related charges, seizing cash, weapons, marijuana and heroin, according to police.
New Berlin officer-in-charge Sgt. Dominick Commesso said the residence had been a “previous location of interest” for police and the arrests were the result of a six-month-long investigation.
Commesso said when police entered the home, they discovered the defendants sleeping after a night of partying. He said police had received a number of complaints about the residence over the last year, often involving late hour traffic and noise.
Police said they found powdered heroin on a table, apparently left out from the night before and a marijuana “grow-room” in the basement. Police seized over a dozen fledgling marijuana plants. They also allegedly discovered 22 packets of heroin and 36 grams of hash, along with a number of pipes, bongs, syringes and other paraphernalia. Police seized nearly $1,000 worth of suspected drug cash from the home, he said. They also reported removing several illegal knives and air pistols from the home.
The other co-defendants still have their cases pending in lower court and McBride said Daring was the only one who was facing a felony-level offense.
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