Informants helped break up an alleged crystal methamphetamine distribution network operating out of a Salem Township home, according to court documents.

Brian D. Dumnich, 35, his girlfriend, Heidi J. Altman, 32, and Victoria Nave, 34, all of the Forbes Road section of Salem, are charged with drug-related counts after agents from Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office searched their Newrow Road home this week. New Kensington District Judge Frank Pallone approved a search warrant after officers reportedly observed an informant purchase methamphetamine from Dumnich.

According to investigators, agents on Dec. 5 seized 17 grams of crystal methamphetamine from a safe in the bedroom, $241 in cash, drug packaging materials, spoons, hypodermic needles, stamp bags of heroin and a small amount of marijuana. The cash retrieved from the safe included marked bills informants used to buy drugs from the trio, investigators said.

Dumnich was arraigned Wednesday before Unity District Judge Michael Mahady and ordered held on $25,000 bail. He has been in the county jail since Friday for a probation violation in connection with a 2018 drug case filed by Greensburg police, according to court dockets.

He is charged with three counts each of possession and delivery of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility.

Nave has yet to be arraigned on identical charges.

Altman was arraigned before Hempfield District Judge Anthony Bompiani on Tuesday on charges of manufacturing, delivery and possession of a controlled substance and related charges. She was released on $15,000 unsecured bond.

Altman’s preliminary hearing is set for Dec. 17.

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