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Monroe couple charged with gun, drug and fraud offenses

Pocono Mountain Regional police have charged two Blakeslee people, Gerard Whack, 42, and Lawanda Davis, 37, with drug, gun and fraud offenses.

Whack is jailed in Monroe County prison under $100,000 cash bail. He is charged with receiving stolen property; person not to possess use firearms; manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver; four counts of endangering welfare of children - parent/guardian/other commits offense; and criminal use of communication facility; all felonies; and possession of weapon, intent to possess a controlled substance by person not registered, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.Davis is jailed under $50,000 cash bail. She is charged with theft by deception-false impression, theft by deception- failing to correct, both felonies; and unsworn falsification to authorities.According to police, at 4 p.m. Feb. 18, police and the Monroe County District Attorney's Office executed a search warrant at the couple's home at 122 Deppner's Road on narcotics trafficking.Whack, Davis and their four children lived in the house, and police found numerous items indicating heroin sales, and a loaded Ruger .40 semiautomatic handgun in the possession of a person who is barred from having firearms.The gun, which turned out to have been stolen, was on a shelf within reach of the children.Police found materials used to package heroin for street sales; a total of $1,252 in cash in denominations consistent with street level drug dealing; bulk packaging materials for heroin; two bricks of the drug (about 100 glassine bags); and several bundles of heroin (10 bags each) and several loose bags of heroin; a digital scale, a coffee grinder and ammunition for a .380 caliber handgun.Evidence revealed that Whack would walk from his home to meet drug customers at the end of his street near Route 115.The house is publicly funded through the Monroe County Housing Authority. The only people allowed to live there were Davis and her four children. Convicted felons or those with drug charges against them are forbidden to live in publicly funded housing, according to federal law.Police also found that Davis has received $12,194 in benefits from the housing authority that she would not have been entitled to.