Law enforcement seized nearly 40 kilograms of heroin while serving a search warrant at a Novi apartment about 9:30 a.m. Monday.

Some details of the raid were contained in a federal criminal complaint filed against three people, Andrea L. Scott, Adolfo V. Lopez, and Manuel A Barajas, who were each arrested during raid on Joyce Lane in Novi.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Oakland County Narcotics Investigation Team officers conducted the investigation.

Lopez and Scott were sitting on a couch in the "sparsely furnished" apartment and Barajas was in the bathroom when law enforcement "loudly announced their presence," the criminal complaint says. when there was no response, police entered using a key provided by the apartment's landlord.

Full complaint:

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Officers said large amounts of suspected heroin packaged in brick form were found throughout the residence, including eight bricks on the dining room table.

The bricks on the dining table, an estimated 11 kilos, were cut open revealing a light brown substance, "which I know through training and experience resemble heroin," DEA Agent Michael Reamer wrote in the criminal complaint.

more than 27 more kilos contained in more bricks stashed in a bedroom closet were also seized alongside an unidentified amount of cash.

There was another kilo of a suspected heroin under the passenger seat of a car rented by Scott, according to the complaint.

The suspects are expected to return to federal court in Detroit on July 13 at 1 p.m. for a detention hearing.

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