ASHLAND — Three Ashland residents were arrested Tuesday on drugs and weapons charges after federal and local law enforcement searched a house on Ohio Street, court records show.
Trent Carey, 31, Tiffany Moss, 30, and Paige Acker, 28, were each charged with felonies related to possession of drugs and firearms, according to a federal indictment filed by an Ashland County Grand Jury on April 6.
On Tuesday, a team of federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents — along with local officials from the Ashland Division of Police, Ashland County Sheriff’s Office and METRICH — executed a warrant at 513 Ohio St., where they arrested Acker without incident.
Agents then arrested Moss, who was jailed at the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office, and Carey, who was at the Ashland County Common Pleas Court.
All three were then transported to U.S. District Court in Cleveland.
According to the April 6 indictment, both Acker and Moss provided Carey, a convicted felon, with handguns and ammo about a month before Carey was arrested in Ashland on drug and weapons charges.
It is a third-degree felony charge for a convicted felon to be in possession of a firearm, according to state law. Transferring a firearm to a convicted felon is a fourth-degree felony.
The indictment says Moss went to Fin, Feather and Fur Outfitters to buy a Glock pistol on Nov. 19. Federal agents with ATF said Moss provided false statements in the Firearms Transaction Record, a document all weapons buyers must complete when purchasing a gun.
Moss, therefore, was charged with transfer of a firearm to a felon and making false statements during purchase of a firearm.
Acker was charged with possession of ammunition and the transfer of ammunition to a felon. The indictment says Acker had two kinds of 9mm ammunition, which she then provided to Carey on Dec. 3.
Carey, on Dec. 21, was arrested by Ashland police and charged with aggravated possession of drugs and having weapons under disability, court records show.
The case stemming from the Dec. 21 incident was dismissed on Tuesday because of the April 6 indictment, which is “now pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio,” reads the motion filed by Ashland County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Michael Callow.
Carey was charged through an April 6 indictment with felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, amphetamine and cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense.
Acker, Moss and Carey each pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to their individual charges stemming from the April 6 indictment.
Acker and Moss were released on bond Tuesday, while Carey is being detained until a scheduled detention hearing set for April 17 in Cleveland.
Acker declined to comment. Both attorneys representing Moss and Carey were not immediately available to comment.
