BY ANGELA MATUA
Police found large amounts of oxycodone and Xanax and arrested two men while executing a search warrant in a Howard Beach apartment house on Friday.
Members of the NYPD Queens Narcotics Bureau and the 106th Precinct launched the raid at 6 a.m. on April 24 at an apartment on 156th Avenue near 81st Street.
Reportedly, police recovered one large Ziploc bag containing 57 oxycodone pills and 88 Xanax pills from an end table in the living room.
Officers also recovered a pill bottle containing 45 oxycodone pills and 30 Xanax pills in the kitchen and a wallet containing $1,245 in cash.
The home’s resident, Matthew Clarke, 23, and an accomplice, Timothy R. Yan, 21, were taken into custody at the scene. According to authorities, Clarke and Yan were sleeping on separate couches in the living room when police entered the home.
Clarke and Yan, a Brooklyn resident, were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. Clarke was booked on an additional drug possession charge.
During their arraignment hearings, Yan was ordered held on $5,000 bail, while Clarke was released without bail. Both men are due back in court Wednesday.
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