Police: Five arres­ted in East School Street drug raid: “This is not a drug house it’s a drug home” was the inscrip­tion on a pil­low in Rodrig­uez’s bed­room, accord­ing to invest­ig­at­ors.

23 Jun 2026

WOONSOCKET – Five people were arres­ted in and around an East School Street tene­ment June 18 after a lengthy under­cover nar­cot­ics invest­ig­a­tion by mem­bers of the Woon­socket Police Depart­ment’s vice unit.

 

Jose R. Rodrig­uez, 60, of 606 East School St., is facing the most ser­i­ous charges after a phalanx of plain­clothes detect­ives, a K-9 unit and uni­formed police executed search war­rants for his apart­ment and motor vehicle around dawn. Invest­ig­at­ors said they found more than three ounces of crack cocaine and a lesser amount of methamphet­am­ine in Rodrig­uez’s bed­room and car, parked out­side.

 

He’s charged with pos­ses­sion with the intent to deliver a con­trolled sub­stance, cocaine, and pos­ses­sion of methamphet­am­ine, a power­ful speed-like drug men­tioned far more often in police reports than it used to be just a couple of years ago.

 

Also arres­ted was Mon­ica Shee­han, 49, a woman who lived at 606 E. School St. with Rodrig­uez and her 11-year-old son. Describ­ing the premises as a sort of retail mar­ket – replete with some tacky advert­ising – police seized her on charges of child neg­lect and child endan­ger­ment for allow­ing her son to be exposed to copi­ous amounts of drug paraphernalia and ongo­ing cus­tomer trans­ac­tions.

 

“This is not a drug house it’s a drug home” was the inscrip­tion on a pil­low in Rodrig­uez’s bed­room, accord­ing to invest­ig­at­ors.

 

Police said Shee­han denied know­ing the extent of any alleged drug traf­fick­ing on the premises. But her son’s bed­room was freely access­ible to that of Rodrig­uez, and the whole apart­ment was both messy and strewn with drug paraphernalia.

 

The boy’s bed­room had “dir­ect and unres­tric­ted access to needles, crack cocaine and crys­tal meth (none of which was locked up, secured, or well hid­den) and the boy was “con­stantly around drug users and drug trans­ac­tions,” a vice squad detect­ive’s report says.

 

In addi­tion to “approx­im­ately 10 cats and a dog,” the police also loc­ated three non-res­id­ents dur­ing the raid, all of whom were arres­ted for one reason or another.

 

They included Jen­nifer L. Lyon, 41, of 415 Black­stone St. Police said she was car­ry­ing a small amount of cocaine and was charged with pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance.

 

Also, Gregory J. Gin­gras, 44, of 35 West Wrentham Road, Cum­ber­land, and Jef­frey A. Ozanian, 43, of 37 Cold Spring Place, were both arres­ted on unre­lated war­rants. The judi­ciary’s web site says Ozanian is on pro­ba­tion from a prior con­vic­tion for drug traf­fick­ing charges.

 

Vice squad reports do not elab­or­ate on how long the Rodrig­uez res­id­ence had been the focus of invest­ig­a­tion prior to the arrests. But a neigh­bor said the dwell­ing had become an ongo­ing nuis­ance in the neigh­bor­hood, draw­ing cus­tom­ers to the prox­im­ity of 606 East School St. to make sus­pec­ted nar­cot­ics trans­ac­tions. Some of the sales appar­ently took place out of Rodrig­uez’s car, where police found a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of the nar­cot­ics.

 

Rodrig­uez, Ozanian, Lyon and Gin­gras were actu­ally in the car when they arrived to execute the search war­rants, accord­ing to police.