Pa. Police Raid Apartment Behind Station; Find 5 Kids, Guns, Explosives

Borough police in Huntingdon County raided an apartment behind their station and said they found five children inside among drugs, guns and explosives.

According to WTAJ-TV in Altoona, Huntingdon police arrested three adults in the multi-agency Thursday morning raid at an apartment in the 500 block of Penn Street. The children were also removed from the home by child welfare workers.

The execution of the search warrant was the culmination of a six-month-long investigation into alleged drug distribution in the area, police said in a news release.

Police said that they found methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, guns and a box of explosive devices in the apartment. A state police bomb squad removed the explosives and Child and Youth Services took the children, WTAJ reported.

The police statement did not detail the amounts of any drugs, how the guns were stored in the home or the kind of explosives.

WTAJ reported that Joel Fouse Jr. and Abigail Fouse, both 52-year-old Huntingdon residents, and Ociel Ortiz, Abigail Fouse’s 27-year-old son from San Antonio, Texas, were arrested.

Police said the Fouses were each charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, while Ortiz was charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. They were not charged with any crimes related to the guns.

All three people charged were being held in the Huntingdon County Jail on $100,000 bonds, police said.

Huntingdon police said on its Facebook page that the county’s district attorney’s office, state police, state attorney general’s office, Tyrone Borough police K-9 unit and the Huntingdon County Sheriff’s Department participated in the raid.

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