Police: Troy man arrested after search yields drugs and cash

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Police arrested Royal Teasley, 37, of Troy on Friday. This after a monthlong investigation by the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation Unit and the Sheriff’s Emergency Service Unit.

Those agencies executed a search warrant at Teasley's home on 6th Avenue in Troy, where they claim to have found over a pound of coke and fentanyl, an ounce of meth, 20 pounds of weed, a loaded handgun without a serial number, scales and packaging for sales, and over $20,000 in cash. He was arrested on several charges:

• First-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance
• Second-degree criminal possession of a weapon
• criminal possession of a firearm

Teasley went to jail without bail after his arraignment in Brunswick Town Court.