Drug dealers involved in human sacrifices

BRIDGEPORT CN -- A skull found in a Madison Avenue basement where a reputed drug gang conducted sacrificial rituals belonged to a human being, police said.

The chief medical examiners' office made the determination Wednesday afternoon, according to Det. Keith Bryant.

Now Bryant said an anthropological exam is underway to determine the sex and age of the skull as well as possibly when the person died.

"Our investigation is continuing," Bryant said. "Additional charges could be forthcoming."

A headless body was found in Bridgeport about a decade ago, according to police. Whether the skull found is connected to that body has not been determined, Bryant said.

Five people are under arrest on marijuana trafficking following the early morning raid and grisly discovery by members of the department's Tactical and Narcotics Team.

Police served a search and seizure warrant on the occupants of the first-floor apartment expecting to seize the normal paraphernalia of drug traffickers.

But when they entered the basement, TNT Sgt. William Bailey said they encountered a scene more common in horror movies than homes across the street from an elementary school.

"There was blood all over the basement walls," he said. The type of blood is being analyzed by investigators, Bryant said.

Photographs of the scene were taken by the detective bureau but are not being made available.

Bailey said the human skull had an alligator skull atop it and either a sheep's or goat's skull underneath it. There were strings of beads hanging, candles burning, animal horns standing and what appeared to be Satanic writings. There was a beheaded chicken, with its blood emptying into a bowl.