COLUMBUS, Ind. (WDRB) -- A report of shots fired at a Columbus apartment complex led police to a drug bust.
The Columbus Police Department responded to a call on Charleston Place about 1 a.m. Oct. 17. When they arrived, officers found bullet holes in two nearby apartments, so they evacuated the apartments and called for backup.
"At about, I'd say, 1 o'clock, I just jumped up because I heard three or four booms," said Charity Foley, who lives nearby.
The gunfire was a frightening wake up call for Foley and other neighbors in the Charleston Square Apartments.
"I mean, it's normally quiet," she said.
The man inside the apartment, Papa M. Sylla, 24, claimed that several men in ski masks tried tried to push their way in and later fired shots into his door. He and two others in the apartment weren't injured. Police later got a search warrant for Sylla's apartment and found hundreds of THC vape cartridges, about two pounds of marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms and about $13,000 in cash.
"Gun violence that we have had here in Columbus has resulted around the sale of marijuana and other drugs here in Columbus," said Lt. Matt Harris with the Columbus Police Department.
Harris said the drugs and gunfire continue a trend and clear up a popular misconception about marijuana.
"It seems like marijuana has been driving the violence here lately in the area," he said.
Sylla and Alhadj Babacar Diaw, 25, were charged with dealing in marijuana, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance and maintaining a common nuisance. Kedisha Leann Brown, 21, was charged with visiting a common nuisance.
Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact the Columbus Police Department at (812)-376-2600. Tips and information can be left anonymously.
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