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The Eltingville home on Petrus Avenue where a South Shore family was busted by police after a raid turned up a stash of heroin and other drugs, according to authorities.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They went from a full house to the big house.

A South Shore family was busted by police after a raid of their Eltingville home turned up a stash of heroin, according to authorities.

Detectives with the NYPD's Narcotics Bureau Staten Island executed two search warrants on the afternoon of Jan. 1 at 181 Petrus Ave., where Gina Ortiz, 47, lives with her son, John Santamaria, 26, and daughters Alyssa and Brianna Santamaria, ages 23 and 18, according to a law enforcement source and court documents.

A man, Radames Ortiz, 49, also lives in the house. The Ortizes are a couple, the source said. The family are renters of the residence.

All five family members were hit with drug charges after detectives found a supply of heroin in the house, which authorities say was most likely to be sold on the street, court papers allege.

Child endangerment charges were also brought up against several members of the family after police found the mother's 8-year-old son at home during the raid, according to authorities.

Detectives netted 60 glassines of heroin from a bedroom safe, and an additional 40 glassines containing heroin residue, court papers allege. Another 10 glassines containing heroin residue was found in a bedroom shared by the Santamaria sisters, according to the court papers.

Four suboxone strips, a scale and straws with heroin residue and an unspecified amount of Naloxone, a nasal spray that's administered to reverse the deadly effects of an opioid overdose, was also found in the raid, according to court documents.

John Santamaria and Gina and Radames Ortiz were each charged with a felony count of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell; they were also each charged with two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Michael McMahon.

The Santamaria sisters were charged separately, each with one misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a controlled substance, the spokesman said.

John Santamaria was ordered held on $3,500 bail, online court records show. The other family members were all released on their own recognizance, according to the records.

No one answered at their home Thursday afternoon.