Heroin-dealing rapper and girlfriend go to trial

A rapper and his girlfriend arrested for selling heroin to an undercover police officer are headed to court on Wednesday.

Michael Anthony Persaud and Tiffany Victoria Irizarry will be tried together before Judge Charles T. Jones Jr. on multiple counts of intent to deliver heroin and related charges.

The couple, who are from Rhode Island, were arrested after reportedly selling 70 bags of heroin to an undercover police officer during a month-long investigation by the Lebanon County Drug Task Force and Harrisburg office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

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The transaction occurred on Oct. 28 at the Days Inn, 625 Quentin Road, where the couple were staying. Police immediately took them into custody and obtained a search warrant for their room, where they found 70 grams of heroin, cutting agents, a grinder and new packaging material.

Police estimated the uncut heroin would fill approximately 2,300 bags that would have a street value of about $11,500.

According to a news release issued by the Lebanon County Office of the District Attorney at the time of his arrest, Persaud is a rapper known by the stage name, Montana Millz, and owner of the rap group Alien Music Group (AMG). His online song catalog includes songs "Sell Drugz," "Gun Play," "Armed and Ready" and "Picture Me Rollin'," the news release said.

There has been little action on his Facebook page since 2014 and a website linking to the band name is no longer operational.

Persaud and Irizarry were placed in Lebanon County Correctional Facility on $100,000 bail.They have since made bail through a bail bondsman, according to court documents.

Updated to correct that Persaud and Irizarry are out on bail.