2nd ‘Rock House’ Raid in Pacoima Nets Drugs

Police raided another suspected drug “rock house” in Pacoima Tuesday night, arresting one suspect and seizing about a pound of cocaine, police officials said.

The raid was conducted next door to the site of the controversial drug raid last month in which police used an armored vehicle with a mechanical battering ram to break into a house, whose only occupants were two women and three small children.

The battering ram was not used in Tuesday’s raid at 13031 Louvre St. The Special Weapons and Tactics team broke into the house about 8:15 p.m. by prying bars off a window, Los Angeles police Detective Charles Uribe said.

Uribe said that, an hour before the raid, police made an undercover purchase of cocaine at the alleged “rock house,” a heavily fortified dwelling from which cocaine is sold in rock-like clumps.

Uribe said that, when police broke into the residence, the suspect tried to destroy some of the cocaine by throwing it into a pot of boiling grease. But an officer reached into the grease to retrieve the evidence, he said. Police also confiscated $1,400, Uribe said.

The suspect, who was arrested on suspicion of possession of cocaine for sale, was not identified Tuesday evening.

Following the Feb. 6 raid, a man was arrested for suspicion of possession of cocaine but the district attorney’s office decided not to prosecute the case.

County property records show that the house raided Tuesday and the one raided last month, at 13037 Louvre St., are both owned by Jeffrey A. Bryant, 33, of Pacoima.

Bryant faces charges of suspicion of cocaine sales stemming from an investigation last year that included a Sheriff’s Department raid at the home at 13031 Louvre St.