A Birmingham man who idolized 1980s big screen gangster Scarface was hit with drug charges himself Monday after authorities raided his Norwood home.

A team of Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies and special weapons and tactics team officers burst into the Norwood Circle home of Ronald Demetrius Samuels about 8:30 a.m., seizing six guns, more than a pound of cocaine, nearly $50,000 in cash and other drug-trade tools.

The 26-year-old Samuels, a first-time offender, was being held Monday evening in the county jail on $1 million bond. [...]

Drug deputies and all 16 members of the sheriff's SWAT team went to the home Monday, finding Ronald Samuels in his bedroom with a small arsenal of weapons, including four handguns, a rifle and a shotgun. He didn't resist arrest, Hale said.

Authorities said the room was decorated with life-sized posters of Al Pacino in his 1983 portrayal of movie character Tony "Scarface" Montana, a Cuban refugee who quickly rose to become a powerful cocaine dealer in Miami.

"The guy was infatuated with Scarface," Myers said. "There were posters all over his house. Seven or eight in the bedroom." [...]