Police arrested three West Rutland residents on suspicion of dealing heroin earlier this month.

The Vermont State Police Drug Task Force, the FBI and the Rutland County Sheriff’s Department searched a property in West Rutland on June 9.

Law enforcement officers said they found 56 grams of raw heroin, 790 glassine bags of heroin, 77 grams of crack cocaine and a gun.

Demar Neal, 30, Corey Fitzgerald, 26, and Ashley Webster, 24, all face federal charges of distributing heroin, possessing heroin, possessing cocaine base and possessing a firearm.

The three are due to be arraigned in federal court later this month.

Twitter: @emhew. Elizabeth Hewitt is the Sunday editor for VTDigger. She grew up in central Vermont and holds a graduate degree in magazine journalism from New York University.

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