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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A large amount of heroin and marijuana, a handgun and nearly $20,000 cash were seized in separate drug sweeps in Wilkes-Barre resulting in the arrests of six people on Tuesday.</p><p>Agents with the state Office of Attorney General and city police arrested four people &#8211; Shai Collins, 20, Zakiyyah N. Long, 21, Travis Kashawn Perry, 30, and Rashad Tyrone Kellman, 28 &#8211; who sold heroin from 882 Scott St., and two people &#8211; Robert Paul Godlewski, 46, and Eleazar Bryant, 40 &#8211; who sold heroin from 97 Maxwell St., court records say.</p><p>According to the criminal complaints:</p><p>Agents set up to buy heroin from a known drug dealer that stayed at the Scott Street address. Surveillance set up in the area watched Kellman leave the Scott Street apartment and travel to a parking lot at George Avenue and North Washington Street where he delivered heroin in exchange for $1,500.</p><p>After the deal, agents served a search warrant at the Scott Street apartment finding 648 heroin packets, a .40 caliber handgun, nearly $3,000 cash, a digital scale and a high capacity magazine containing 21 rounds of .40 caliber ammunition, the complaints say.</p><p>In the other drug sweep, Godlewski and Bryant were arrested during a traffic stop on Mundy Street shortly after Godlewski allegedly sold heroin at the Maxwell Street residence.</p><p>Agents allege Godlewski has sold heroin since April 17.</p><p>Bryant consented to a search of a residence at 908 S. Prospect St., Nanticoke, where $20,000 cash and one pound of marijuana was recovered, the complaints say.</p><p>District Judge Joseph Halesey in Hanover Township arraigned the six men on drug trafficking related offenses on Wednesday.</p><p>Collins and Long, who both lived at the Scott Street residence, Perry, of Brodheadsville, and Kellman, of Brooklyn, N.Y., were jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $100,000 bail each.</p><p>Godlewski and Bryant, both of Maxwell Street, were jailed at the county correctional facility for lack of $75,000 bail each.</p><p><strong>CORRECTION</strong> &#8211; This story has been corrected. The address of the Scott Street residence was 882.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

Six nabbed in separate drug sweeps