State police arrested a suspect on drug and weapons charges after a lengthy investigation into suspected gang operations at a vacant home in Bridgeport, police said.
Yero Walker, 33, of Bridgeport, is accused of selling narcotics out of an unoccupied home on Wilmot Avenue. During a several-month investigation launched in response to multiple shootings in the past year in the East End of Bridgeport, task force members in the State Police Gang Unit, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Streets unit and Bridgeport police learned that gang members took over the vacant home to run an illegal narcotics operation, state police said, also accepting stolen property often traded for drugs.
Investigators executed two search and seizure warrants at 425 and 427 Wilmot Avenue, a multi-family building, and also searched a Toyota there on Friday, Feb. 5 at 4:50 p.m. They seized more than $7,000 in cash, seven guns, including three that were reported stolen, a high-capacity 30-round magazine, fireworks, drug paraphernalia, two scales, nearly 126 grams of crack cocaine, nearly 111 ounces of suspected liquid Codeine, 120 grams of marijuana, a 2009 Toyota Avalon, a 2011 DIX 113 motorcycle, a dirt bike, identification cards, documents, three power washers, four chain saws, four grass trimmers, four leaf blowers, a Simplicity snowblower and a generator, state police said.
The guns seized were two Glock handguns, a sawed-off shotgun, an Inner Arms .38 revolver, a Phoenix Arms .25 caliber pistol, a Rino Calesi .25 caliber pistol and a Charter Arms revolver, state police said.
Investigators identified Walker as the Toyota owner and someone dealing drugs out of the Wilmot Avenue residence, state police said.
State police charged Walker with seven counts of criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of ammunition, possession of a sawed off shotgun, weapons in a motor vehicle, possession of a high capacity magazine, three counts of theft of a firearm, possession of narcotics, possession with intent to sell, possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school zone and operating a drug factory.
He was taken into custody at Troop G in Bridgeport and is being held on a $500,000 bond.
