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   Timothy Granison’s arrest was the latest crisis for the re-   
   election campaign of Mayor Lovely Warren of Rochester, N.Y., who   
   suggested the investigation was part of a conspiracy against her.   
      
   The husband of the mayor of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested on   
   Wednesday after the police said they discovered drugs and guns   
   in searches of his car and home, the latest crisis for the mayor   
   in a year continually whipsawed by scandal.   
      
   Mayor Lovely Warren’s husband, Timothy Granison, 42, was accused   
   of being part of a midlevel cocaine trafficking ring and charged   
   on Thursday with drug and gun possession in what prosecutors   
   said was the culmination of a seven-month-long investigation.   
      
   Six other people were charged in connection to the case, and   
   additional charges are expected, according to the Monroe County   
   district attorney.   
      
   Ms. Warren was not charged with a crime, and prosecutors have   
   not suggested she was a target of the investigation. A lawyer   
   for Mr. Granison said Ms. Warren had no involvement with   
   anything of which he is accused.   
      
   But Mr. Granison’s arrest, and the discovery of 31 grams of   
   powder in his possession that the police believe is cocaine — as   
   well as a semiautomatic rifle and an unregistered handgun in Ms.   
   Warren’s home — threatened to once again upend Ms. Warren’s re-   
   election campaign.   
      
   The episode was the latest in a series of scandals linked to Ms.   
   Warren, who is seeking her third term as the mayor of Rochester,   
   a small city just south of Lake Ontario.   
      
   Last summer, the city was rocked by revelations of an apparent   
   cover-up of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in   
   police custody, which led to the firing of its police chief and   
   censure of top officials. In the fall, Ms. Warren was indicted   
   by county prosecutors on campaign finance charges for financial   
   fraud during her 2017 re-election campaign. She has pleaded not   
   guilty.   
      
   In an address from City Hall on Thursday, Ms. Warren said she   
   was the victim of a vast conspiracy to discredit her just a   
   month before the city’s Democratic primary election. She accused   
   the New York State Board of Elections of manipulating the   
   evidence in its case against her, and suggested that the   
   district attorney was framing her because she was angry the   
   mayor had supported her opponent. And Ms. Warren intimated that   
   the timing of Mr. Granison’s arrest and next court date — June   
   21, the day before the primary — had been designed to prevent   
   her re-election.   
      
   “People will try anything to break me,” Ms. Warren said.   
      
   She described the recent events biblically, as her “Job year,”   
   and denied any involvement in Mr. Granison’s troubles; the mayor   
   and her husband had long ago signed a separation agreement, she   
   said, but continued to co-parent their 10-year-old daughter.   
      
   At a news conference on Thursday, Sandra Doorley, the Monroe   
   County district attorney, repudiated Ms. Warren’s accusations.   
      
   “I’m sure there are going to be people out there who think this   
   was politically motivated,” Ms. Doorley said. “It was not.”   
      
   Ms. Doorley described Mr. Granison as a player in a “narcotics   
   ring,” adding that the investigation was ongoing and more   
   arrests and searches were expected. More than two kilograms of   
   crack cocaine and powder, worth about $60,000, as well as more   
   than $100,000 in cash, was recovered across searches of the   
   homes and other property of the seven people arrested.   
      
   “We believe this whole organization was a midlevel drug   
   organization that was affecting the city of Rochester,” Ms.   
   Doorley said at the conference, adding that the quantity of   
   drugs recovered was considered “significant.”   
      
   Mr. Granison has had past run-ins with the law: When he was 17,   
   he pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery after serving as a   
   getaway driver in a jewelry store robbery. He was sentenced to   
   five years probation.   
      
   On Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to one count of criminal   
   possession of a firearm, and two counts of criminal possession   
   of a controlled substance, and was released on his own   
   recognizance. Ms. Doorley said that investigators were also   
   assessing whether the semiautomatic rifle was legal, and said he   
   could face charges related to that weapon if it was not.   
      
   In an interview, John L. DeMarco, Mr. Granison’s lawyer, said   
   that his client also wanted to stress that his wife had not been   
   involved. “The mayor has played no role in any of this,” Mr.   
   DeMarco said. “Other than merely being a resident of the home,   
   there is no involvement.”   
      
   Officials declined to specify what sparked the initial   
   investigation, but Ms. Doorley said that Mr. Granison was not   
      
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