RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The Richmond Police Department has made several arrests in connection to a drug bust that occurred in 2022 at a house in the Union Hill area. Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards announced the arrests during the city's annual crime briefing on Thursday, Jan. 16. (Courtesy of Richmond Police Department) (Courtesy of Richmond Police Department) The arrests were in connection to a drug bust that took place in 2022 at 2221 Venable St., also known as "The Yellow House." Based on evidence from court documents, "The Yellow House" was used by the occupants for more than a decade to use and sell a wide arrangement of drugs -- including crack, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said the occupants also sold a mixture of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl, as well as animal tranquilizer -- known as "tranq" or "the zombie drug." According to police, the following items were seized from three search warrants: 112.89g of "Tranq" or Xylazine 46.75g heroin 20.8 fentanyl and heroin mixed 7.4977g of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl 67.03 g of cocaine 111.6968g of cocaine base 1186g of marijuana Various tablets of Percocet, Oxycodone and Amphetamines Prescription meds Four firearms $31,276 in cash The DOJ confirmed that drug trafficking activities at the house had dated back as far as 2008. Richmond police carried out four drug trafficking-related search warrants at the home -- the first one in 2010 and the other three in 2022. In addition, police and first responders were called to the house for two overdoses that resulted in deaths at the home in 2016 and 2020. The DOJ said this prompted frustrated residents in the area to write to their local councilwoman and speak out against the continuous criminal activities taking place at the home. According to the DOJ, residents wrote to local officials for assistance in having to witness unlawful acts such as open prostitution, illicit drug use, public indecency, public urination and defecation, violence, drug overdoses, theft and more. During his crime briefing on Thursday, Edwards said the following individuals had been arrested in connection to criminal activity at the house: Eric Brown with possession with the intent to distribute. Richard Brown with possession with the intent to distribute. Bernard McCray with possession with the intent to distribute. Elton Richardson with possession with the intent to distribute. James Richardson with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The United States started a civil forfeiture action against the property by publicly filing a civil forfeiture complaint in U.S. District Court. This resulted in the government sending a notice of forfeiture action to every person who seemed to have occupied the home. The notice would give the claimants the chance to contest the action in court, but since none of them came forward, the United States acquired a default forfeiture judgment. According to the DOJ, the house will now be sold by the U.S. Marshals Service and will be removed from the control of the occupants who used the home as a "headquarters" to sell drugs. Some of the occupants of the home have been prosecuted in state court, according to the DOJ