New London Police

make two separate heroin-related arrests Thursday, seizing drugs, cash and paraphernalia from homes on Blackhall and Farnsworth streets.

New London — Police on Thursday made two separate heroin-related arrests, seizing drugs, cash and paraphernalia from homes on Blackhall and Farnsworth streets.

On Thursday morning, detectives and members of the New London Police Department’s Vice and Intelligence section executed a warrant at 74 Blackhall St., Apt. 3, where they found heroin and crack cocaine packaged for sale, along with Oxycodone pills, Suboxone films and paraphernalia used to package and weigh narcotics, according to a statement from Deputy Police Chief Peter Reichard.

Suboxone is a prescription medicine used to treat opioid addiction.

The arrest was part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The resident of the apartment, 28- year- old Tyron Johnson, was charged with four counts of possession of narcotics, two counts of sale of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Later in the day, police arrested Eric Cherry, 33, at his residence at 1 Farnsworth Street, Apt. 2.

He was charged with possession of narcotics, sale of narcotics and sale of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school.

Officers seized 4.8 grams of heroin, an unspecified amount of marijuana and $571 in cash.