Police: Heroin hidden inside can of baby formula in New Ken apartment

New Kensington police and state drug agents say they found heroin packets hidden inside a can of baby formula when they raided a New Kensington apartment.

The raid on Constitution Boulevard Thursday turned up about 9.5 grams of uncut, loose heroin, six pieces of crack cocaine, two baggies of marijuana and more than 1,300 individual packets of heroin, according to police.

About a quarter of the heroin — 325 packets — was inside a baby formula can found in the apartment. A baby was in a bedroom in the apartment when police raided, officers wrote in criminal complaints filed in the case.

Police also allegedly found a pistol hidden in the couch.

Michael Todd Lasko, 28, and Yazmene Dionna Bassett, 23, both from New Kensington, and Antoine D. Drew, 41, of Chicago, are accused of multiple drug offenses and child endangerment.

Lasko and Drew are also accused of illegal gun possession. Both are felons who aren’t allowed to have a firearm. Officers said they also found a baggie with crack and $340 on Lasko.

Agents said Drew was previously convicted of unlawful gun possession as well as cocaine possession in Chicago. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to making threats in Westmoreland County.

Lasko, who was wearing a pretrial electronic ankle bracelet when arrested, and Drew will remain in jail under their preliminary hearing. Bassett was released on bond to await the preliminary hearing.

Lasko was already awaiting a hearing on allegations that he was one of four men involved in a shootout just a block from Arnold’s police station last May.