In the early hours of the morning on November 2nd, 2023, the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit and Emergency Services Unit rolled down Hill Street in the City of Troy to continue Operation Dark Horse after a three-month investigation. While residents in the area were leaving for work, multiple marked and unmarked SUV’s pulled up in front of the target location a long with members of the Emergency Services Unit and rushed the front door of 182 Hill Street.

The Emergency Services Unit made entry to the front door and pushed up the stairs to the second floor. “SHERIFFS OFFICE SEARCH WARRANT!” and the door flew open, and the Emergency Services Unit took down all of the occupants of the target location with expeditious force the target suspects had no time to react. The Emergency Services Unit cleared the whole house and told the Criminal Investigation Unit it was clear to make entry to the house. The Criminal Investigation Unit made entry along with one of the Rensselaer County Sheriff's K-9 officer Delta and begin to search the apartment. As investigators were doing so, one investigator came outside and got multiple evidence boxes and bags and headed back inside the target location. Deputies kept the roadway shut down for an extended period of time while they were operating inside of the location.

The Emergency Services Unit held perimeter security for an extended period of time. The Criminal Investigation Unit removed the target narcotics dealer from the van and began to question him and then shut the van door and made their way back inside the house. Members of the Criminal Investigation Unit searching the house located three loaded handguns (9mm Glock 19, 9mm Springfield XDS, and a .45 caliber Colt 1911), a high capacity ammunition feeding device, 29.3 grams of a chunk substance that field tested positive for cocaine hydrochloride, 3.5 grams of assorted color pills that field tested positive for methamphetamine, 446 grams of blue pills that field tested positive for Fentanyl and Codeine, $2,863.00 in US currency, scales, and packaging materials. The seized narcotics have an estimated street value of approximately $20,000.00. Members of the Criminal Investigation Unit cleared the house in the late hours of the morning. The narcotics dealer was taken back to the Rensselaer County jail for processing.

The narcotics dealers name is and was charged with the following: Jawan Myers, Jr., 23, faces multiple felony charges, including first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (narcotic drug) with 8 ounces or more, third-degree criminal possession of a narcotic drug with intent to sell, second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (narcotic drug) with 4 ounces or more, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance/narcotic drug, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon ammunition feeding device, and three counts of criminal possession of a firearm.

This area of the City of Troy has had multiple shots fired incidents in the last few weeks and at this time it is unknown if any of the handguns recovered were used in those incidents. Jawan Myers is currently facing prior narcotics and weapon-related charges in Saratoga County, where he was recently released on his own recognizance. Jawan Myers was arraigned today by the Honorable Judge Maier under new charges resulting from the search warrant and the judge remanded Myers back to the Rensselaer County Jail with no bail.
The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Operation Dark Horse has been actively targeting narcotics dealers in Rensselaer County for months from one end of the City of Troy to the other. The City of Troy has the largest number of narcotics dealers in the county and has caused the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit to focus on this location of the county. Operation Dark Horse not only has destroyed a significant portion of the narcotics trade in the city of Troy but has had a positive impact in other ways by reducing the number of overdoses Rensselaer County has seen in the last few months after each search warrant execution. The investigators of the Criminal Investigation Unit driving force to capture and eliminate these narcotics dealers is fueled by the need to bring the drug epidemic under control, clean up the neighborhoods of Rensselaer County to make it a safer place for families to raise their children, and a large amount of caffeine to keep them going all hour's day and night.

The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit investigators want the public to know that they are working hard a cleaning up the streets of Rensselaer County and the drug tip line is open 24/7/365 and if you have drug activity in your neighborhood to call their drug tip line at 518-270-0128. The public's help has been monumental in cleaning up the streets of Rensselaer County. The sign on the house was donated to the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit by a resident after their neighborhood was cleaned up of a narcotics dealer. The E in Rensselaer County was missing, but the fact the resident went out and purchased the sign meant a lot to the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit and they still used the sign on the house.