Update on Ambridge Drug Raid

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published May 31, 2024 1:42 P.M.

(Ambridge, Pa) Michael, Motton, 34, is lodged in the Beaver County Jail on $900,000 bail. He is charged with 4 felony counts of manufacturing, delivering or possession with intent and 4 misdemeanors. The warrant was served Wednesday by police and the PA Attorney’s Drug Task Force.

Ambridge Police had gone to the Ambridge Towers Apartments to arrest Motton on a felony warrant when the defendant asked an officer to retrieve his cell phone from the bedroom where the drugs were located.
14,000 fentanyl pills, 110.7 grams of fentanyl powder, 104.5 Xanax pills, 19.26 grams of cocaine, 26.7 grams of  powder cocaine, a bag of unknown pills broken into powder form, $2,725 in U.S. currency, and drug paraphernalia were seized during the search.
Motton faces a preliminary hearing on Tuesday June 11, at 10:30 a.m. in Beaver County Central Court. The charges were filed in District Court in Ambridge.
The second defendant in the case, Jalonte Williams, 26, of Michigan, faces the same charges. Williams is also lodged in County Jail, and bail is set at $900,000.