Suspect had heroin, loaded gun, police say
A city man was arrested with more than 200 decks of heroin and a loaded semiautomatic handgun after a multiple-agency investigation, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
Prince A. Ellis, 51, was arrested at 11 p.m. April 13 by state police, members of the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team and the Kingston Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit after a warrant was executed at a home on Garden Street in Kingston owned by Ellis, authorities said.
In addition to heroin and a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun, police found $4,000 cash in the residence, they said.
Ellis was charged with the felonies of criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm.
He was arraigned in Hurley Town Court and sent to the Ulster County Jail without bail.