Raid on Warwick Avenue Nets Drug Arrests

A police raid on a house on Warwick Avenue in Fairfield on Tuesday led to the arrest of its resident on a host of drug charges, according to a news release from police on Thursday.

Police said Alexander Dacosta, 19, was selling marijuana to Fairfield residents from the home and from his car. Detectives who executed a search-and-seizure warrant at the house found a wooden cigar box that contained a plastic sandwich bag with marijuana inside; scales; narcotics capsules; grinders; growing lamps; glass bongs; potting soil and pots, police said.

Dacosta was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana within 1,500 feet of a school, operating a drug factory, failure to keep narcotics in the original container and possession of narcotics.

Dacosta was held in lieu of $25,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court May 26, police said.

Also arrested, police said, was Daniel Dacosta, 19, who was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released on a promise to appear in court May 26, police said. Police said the two men are brothers by adoption.