Pottstown woman jailed for illegal drug activity

Aishia Janiere Gadson was sentenced to jail after cocaine and heroin were found inside her residence.

NORRISTOWN >> A Pottstown woman was sent to jail for illegal drug activity in the borough after cocaine and heroin were found inside her borough residence.

Aishia Janiere Gadson, 34, of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½-to23-months in the county jail after she pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to deliver heroin and cocaine and conspiracy to deliver heroin in connection with an August 2013 incident at her residence.

Judge Todd D. Eisenberg also ordered Gadson to complete two years’ probation following parole, meaning Gadson will be under court supervision for about four years. Gadson will receive credit for about eight months she’s already spent in jail while awaiting court action on the charges.

Court documents indicate an investigation began on Aug. 4, 2013, when Philadelphia police went to Gadson’s Pottstown residence during the investigation of an unrelated matter.

“While officers were checking the residence for people, the officers noticed that there were controlled substances in plain view in the second-floor front bedroom. Therefore, a search warrant was then completed,” Pottstown Detective Brooke Fisher wrote in the arrest affidavit.

Pottstown detectives obtained the warrant and the search began shortly after 7 p.m.

During the search, detectives found drug packaging materials throughout the residence, a scale in the kitchen, three bags of heroin in a toilet, and 40 packets of crack cocaine, 56 packets of heroin and 34 glassine bags of marijuana in the second-floor bedroom, according to the criminal complaint.

Other charges of possession with intent to deliver marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of heroin, cocaine and marijuana were dismissed against Gadson in exchange for her guilty plea to the other felony drug charges.