Barre City Police arrested a Hartford, Connecticut man on serious drug trafficking charges Friday after executing a search warrant on North Main Street.

On the afternoon of May 2, officers led by Corporals Fecher and Gaylord served the warrant at a residence in the 400 block of North Main Street – the site of the Barre Manor subsidized housing highrise. Inside, they discovered a significant cache of narcotics: roughly 19 grams of fentanyl, 40 grams of crack cocaine, 10 grams of marijuana, two sleeves of LSD blotter paper, and over $1,150 in cash.

Marlon Foster Jr., 21, of Hartford was taken into custody at the scene and transported to the Northeast Correctional Center, where he is being held on $250,000 bail. Foster faces charges of fentanyl trafficking, sale and possession of cocaine, and conspiracy. He was scheduled to appear in Washington Superior Court on May 4.

The bust is the latest evidence of drug activity at Barre Manor. Longtime residents say the federally-subsidzed housing is a ‘trap house’ – where residents with money and or/drug problems allow out-of-state drug dealers to live there and play their deadly trade.

Rep. Michael Boutin reported that he has introduced a bill allowing police to trespass from subsidized housing people charged with crimes. The bill is now ‘hanging on the wall’ in House Judiciary.