Search yields cash, drugs; one charged

Police reported finding a trove of drugs that included hundreds of prescription pills and large amounts of marijuana and cocaine when they executed a search warrant at a North Little Rock home Friday.

Officers entered a house at 111 Sheridan Road, the home of Alex Coleman, shortly after 6 a.m. They reported finding 1.26 pounds of marijuana; about 13 ounces of cocaine; 2.3 ounces of methamphetamine; about a quarter of an ounce of heroin; 475 oxycodone pills; 114 hydrocodone pills; 22 Adderall pills; 64 pills of alprozolam, also known as Xanax; 32 methadone pills and a morphine pill.

Police reported finding $32,378 in Coleman’s bedroom. Elsewhere in the house, police found a digital scale, small plastic bags and a .22-caliber rifle that had been reported stolen in Pulaski County, the report says.

Police obtained a search warrant after responding to a domestic disturbance at the house and arresting Coleman the previous day. Coleman’s roommate, Ashlee Phillips, called police about 6 p.m. Thursday, saying Coleman had struck her in the face.

Coleman pushed officers and was stunned with a Taser before being detained, police reported. During the altercation, Coleman purportedly had a bag of cocaine hanging from his pocket. Twelve hours later, police returned with a warrant to search the home.

Coleman, 37, was charged with simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, maintaining a drug premises near a drug-free zone and numerous counts of possession of a controlled substance. He was additionally charged with third-degree domestic battery, refusal to submit to arrest, theft by receiving and possession of a firearm by certain persons. Police reported that Coleman is convicted felon from Arizona.

Late Saturday, he was being held in lieu of bond at the Pulaski County jail.