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Police said they made controlled buys of heroin from Nanticoke residence.

NANTICOKE – Days before seizing more than 800 packets of heroin in a raid of an East Main Street house, police made controlled buys of heroin from the residence, according to arrest papers.

Police arrested four people, including two men from Brooklyn, N.Y., and seized crack cocaine, marijuana and a gun, the papers said.

Nigel Errol Sandy, 24, and William Edward Reid, 23, both of Brooklyn, and Hector J. Lopez, 22, and Karl T. Traynham, 28, both of Nanticoke, were held for lack of bail on various drug charges at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

According to affidavits of probable cause to support the arrests:

State police provided money to a confidential informant on Oct. 18 and 24 to buy heroin at the residence from a person who used the street name “Hec.” Portions of the controlled buys tested positive for heroin.

On Wednesday, state police and Nanticoke police searched the residence and seized 842 packets of heroin that matched the previous controlled buys from Lopez.

A cell phone that had the number called by the informant was seized from Lopez as well as $80 used to make one of the controlled buys two days earlier.

All four men were in the residence at the time of the raid.

In addition, a Nanticoke police dog used in drug searches reacted to a scent in a car parked in front of the residence. Reid told police he drove the car owned by his uncle in Williamsport to Nanticoke from New York City.

Police obtained a search warrant for the car and seized a gun as well as three black bags that were identical to the one in the residence that contained unopened packets of heroin.

Police also said a deodorizing material was sprinkled throughout the car to try to thwart dogs trained to detect narcotics.