Greece, N.Y. (WHAM) — Det. Sgt. Jeffrey Dill from the Greece Police Department said any time a town resident dies from an overdose, it doesn’t end there.

An August overdose led to the eventual seizure of drugs and guns during a pair of searches Wednesday, along with two arrests.

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In that case and others, Dill said police want to know exactly where the drugs came from and who was dealing them.

“(In) this case, we were able to bring about a narcotics case and then, over the course of two months, our unit worked that and eventually led to search warrants, which resulted in the seizure of guns and drugs,” said Dill.

Greece police worked alongside the Rochester Police Department and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. The teams traced activity back to a home on Adeline Road in Greece and a home on Ridgeway Avenue in Rochester.

“We seized eight firearms and approximately 50 grams of cocaine,” he said, adding the drug amounts to a couple thousand dollars of street value.

Taken into custody were Derek Hall, 45 of Greece and Deche Davis, 45, of Rochester. They were each charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a weapon, among other charges.

Police said Hall was taken to the Monroe County Jail on $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond. Davis was released to electronic monitoring before being arrested on federal charges.

Dill said drug activity like this case tears apart whole communities.

“It’s terrible for families,” he said. “It obviously affects the immediate family, but you also see it with friends and other people down the line.”

Dill said drones, social media and license plate reader cameras were use in the case.

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“We try to provide some justice for families by at least determining who’s selling drugs that may have potentially gone to that person, and taking them down and arresting them,” he said.

Dill had a warning for others dealing drugs in Greece.

“We’re definitely going to be looking into you,” he said. “And we may meet you in the future.”