YOUNGSTOWN A routine maintenance check at a Downtown Youngstown building turned up seven packages of what police suspect are illegal narcotics hidden in a drop ceiling.

The drugs were found on Wednesday afternoon in the building on East Federal Street when a maintenance worker for Chase Bank discovered several cellophane-wrapped packages as he was changing air filters in the mezzanine. A police report redacted the street address of the building.

The worker retrieved one package, unwrapped it, and, believing it to be narcotics, called the police.

Although the white, pressed, crystal-like substance field-tested negative for drugs, police say a drug-sniffing K9 gave officers a positive indication that the package contained narcotics.

Officers were then led to a hallway where an additio

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