Woman allegedly makes heroin sale while shopping with mom
A 36-year-old Monroe County woman was arrested after making a heroin deal while she was shopping with her mom, authorities say. Courtney Snyder, of Hamilton Township, sold the drug at the...
View ArticleHeroin dealer arrested after standoff, DA's office says
A customer-service-minded heroin dealer was taken into custody after a three-hour standoff in Carbon County, according to the Monroe County District Attorney's Office. John Dealbertis IV, 53, of...
View ArticleLocal man arrested as cops allegedly find heroin, Oxy
A 46-year-old Bethlehem man faces drug charges after Bethlehem police served a search warrant at his home, court papers say. Officers at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday entered 725 Pawnee St. and found plastic bags...
View ArticleMan who sold heroin is arrested in Easton, police say
A 32-year-old man wanted on a drug-dealing charge was arrested Wednesday in Easton, city police report. A controlled buy of heroin was made Aug. 19 from Jermaine Davis in the...
View Article$80K in drugs, $42K in cash confiscated, Lehigh DA says
A Coplay man who had nearly $80,000 in illegal drugs, more than $40,000 in cash and four handguns faces numerous charges, the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office reports. Michael Louis Frasier,...
View ArticleMan picked up in drug raid faced charges in 3 counties
A 25-year-old Monroe County man who has faced drug charges in three counties in the past three years was jailed again Sunday after a drug raid in Polk Township, Pennsylvania State Police. Matthew John...
View ArticleSobriety checkpoint stop nets man drug, impaired driving charges
A Pennsylvania State Police sobriety checkpoint just before Thanksgiving led to the arrest of a New Jersey man on drug and impaired-driving charges, according to a news release from the Lehighton...
View ArticleWhere did woman allegedly hide drugs before going to jail?
A 26-year-old Stroudsburg woman faces a variety of charges after hiding drugs in her "crotch area" after a traffic stop and trying to smuggle them into Monroe County jail, the county district...
View ArticleWoman faces drug charges after Slate Belt arrest
A 23-year-old Monroe County woman faces drug charges after Slate Belt Regional police found her with heroin in a parked car in Wind Gap, according to a news release. Emmy...
View ArticleHow much heroin do cops say they found in car?
A 32-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man from Berwick, Pennsylvania, face drug charges after a traffic stop at 9:50 p.m. Wednesday on Route 100 near Industrial Boulevard in Upper Macungie Township,...
View ArticleAllentown heroin found as 2 busted in Monroe drug raid
A Monroe County man, who was packaging a large amount of heroin he'd bought the night before in Allentown, was arrested early Thursday in a Monroe County Drug Task Force raid at a hotel in Middle...
View ArticleStop yields 404 heroin packets, stolen gun, report says
A 24-year-old Monroe County man faces drug and firearms charges after a traffic stop on Interstate 80 turned up 404 bags of heroin and a stolen gun, according to a published report. Peter Bartalemeo...
View ArticleDrug raid recovers heroin, pot, guns and cash, reports say
Police recovered $46,000 in drugs, $28,000 in cash and nine guns in a Monroe County raid that led to three arrests, according to published reports. Ryan Navarro, 21, and Bruce Manuel Tirado, 25, were...
View ArticleHellertown residents face heroin charge after raid
Two Hellertown residents were charged Thursday with possession with intent to deliver heroin after borough police raided a residence, a news...
View ArticleDA: Woman tries to smuggle drugs in 'private area' into jail
A Monroe County woman who was arrested on a warrant faces additional charges because she smuggled drugs between jails, authorities say. Jennifer Gongora, 31, of Eldred Township, was searched Friday...
View ArticlePrison locked down after guard caught with heroin, DA's office says
A corrections officer supervisor at Monroe County prison dropped a packet of heroin Thursday morning inside the facility, leading to her arrest and a lockdown and search there, authorities said. Sgt....
View ArticleLocal woman smuggles drugs into jail, authorities charge
A 30-year-old Upper Saucon Township woman is charged with smuggling drugs into Monroe County jail, authorities report. Jenny Schleppy was picked up Thursday by Pennsylvania State Police on a Lehigh...
View ArticleSaylorsburg man charged in shooting death of 4-year-old son
A 21-year-old Monroe County man was charged with involuntary manslaughter and related charges Tuesday in the shooting death of his 4-year-old son, Pennsylvania State Police said. Troopers had...
View ArticleOperation Autumn Harvest results in drug arrests, police say
Nazareth police made several arrests this month in conjunction with the Northampton County Drug Task Force in an effort labeled Operation Autumn Harvest, according to a news release. Police are trying...
View ArticleMan has heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy after crash, cops say
A 26-year-old Allentown man faces several drug charges after fleeing a traffic stop and crashing Saturday night in Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania State Police report. Dylan Matthew Marks had...
View ArticleWilson man facing 6 heroin charges released on $2.5K bail
A 67-year-old Wilson Borough man charged with three counts of possession with intent to deliver heroin was released Tuesday when 10 percent of his $25,000 bail was posted. Frank Joe Ruffino and three...
View ArticleEaston man arrested in pot-for-sex scheme, authorities say
Justin Running "is always looking for new people to smoke weed with," he allegedly told authorities after he was arrested on Wednesday. Running, 26, of the 1000 block of Bushkill Drive in Easton, was...
View ArticleMcDonald's employees aid kid after mom passes out on heroin: report
A 4-year-old walked into a central Pennsylvania McDonald's to get help after her mom and another woman passed out after allegedly using heroin in a car, according to a published report. ...
View ArticleMan uses cellphone charger cord to choke woman, cops say
A 55-year-old Monroe County man wrapped a cellphone charger cord around the neck of a 48-year-old woman after an argument...
View ArticleN.J. prison nurse arrested twice on Pa. drug charges
A 47-year-old nurse at Edna Mahan Correction Facility for Women in Union Township was arrested twice on Tuesday on drug charges in Monroe County, an official says. Dawn Terry-Dew, of Stroudsburg, was...
View ArticleMan faces 12 charges after Wilson Borough drug raid
A 46-year-old Wilson Borough man faces at least 12 drug-related charges after a raid Monday afternoon. Borough police and the Northampton County Drug Task Force served search and arrest warrants at...
View ArticleBangor PD, drug task force arrest 2 after 'lengthy' probe
Bangor police, working with the Northampton County Drug Task Force, on Friday charged two people and recovered 200 bags of suspected heroin, authorities say. A search warrant was served following as...
View ArticleWrong plate leads to discovery of 15 pounds of pot, police said
Some things not to do when allegedly driving with 15 pounds of marijuana in the trunk. Don't put a license plate registered to your car on a different vehicle. Don't drive with a suspended license....
View ArticleDrug-using parents charged with endangerment after 6-month-old dies,...
A drug-using couple from Monroe County face child endangerment charges after their 6-month-old son died, Pennsylvania State Police and the county coroner's office report. Samantha Cashin DeFrancesco,...
View ArticleWoman faces 2nd DUI as heroin found in car, police say
A woman awaiting a preliminary hearing on DUI counts was charged Wednesday with being intoxicated behind the wheel of a vehicle that contained 74 packets of heroin, Pennsylvania State Police report....
View ArticleBangor woman faces charges after meth found in raid, police say
A 26-year-old Bangor woman faces drug charges after a search warrant was served Thursday morning during a drug raid at her home, borough police report....
View Article‘Sexy Gothic Mistress’ draws prostitution charge after sting, authorities say
A 48-year-old Florida woman who advertised herself as a “Sexy Gothic Mistress” was arrested Tuesday during a prostitution sting in Monroe County, the district attorney’s office reports. Tammy Curran,...
View ArticleEaston man arrested carrying 4 kinds of drugs, police say
An Easton man was carrying a mini-pharmacy when he was arrested during a traffic stop Friday evening, city police report in court papers. Kyle Jerome Rudolph, 41,...
View ArticleMan on run for 2 years is arrested and will face 2 drug cases from 2017,...
A 52-year-old man who police say was selling methamphetamine in 2017 out of a Hellertown home is in custody and facing several charges after nearly two years on the run, court papers indicate. Terry...
View ArticleDo you know Walmart shopper using stolen credit card info? (PHOTOS)
A man using credit card information skimmed in Monroe County went shopping early this year at the Walmart on Route 191...
View ArticleEaston man facing charge of delivering cocaine gets unsecured bail
A 68-year-old Easton man sold cocaine to a police confidential source in February but wasn’t charged until late November and didn’t answer to the charge until early Saturday, records show. Lawrence...
View ArticleMansfield Township woman faces heroin charge, police say
A 32-year-old Mansfield Township woman faces drug charges after a traffic stop Monday night in...
View Article2 men delivering heroin in Bethlehem quickly arrested, cops say
Two men remain in jail Thursday morning after Bethlehem police saw them delivering heroin on Wednesday afternoon in the 700 block of East Fourth Street, authorities report. Carols Perez, 58, who was...
View ArticleWoman facing drug charge arrested with drugs, police say
A 26-year-old Bethlehem Township woman, already wanted on a bench warrant tied to a drug charge in Lehigh County, was arrested Friday evening in Hanover Township, Northampton County, with heroin in a...
View ArticleBangor PD, task force hit same location, report finding nearly 200 bags of...
Bangor police and the Northampton County Drug Task Force on Wednesday served a search warrant at the same location they raided last summer, this time recovering nearly 200 bags of heroin and making one...
View ArticleHeroin found on Easton man who smelled of pot in traffic stop, police say
An Easton man who smelled of marijuana after emerging from a car during a traffic stop was arrested on drug charges, city police report. Franklin Cesare-Hesse, 26, of the...
View ArticleTeen from Easton’s College Hill faces felony drug charge
An 18-year-old resident of Easton’s College Hill was arrested Tuesday night with a “large quantity of marijuana” on the city’s South Side, police report in court papers. Jaylynn Nicole Smith,...
View ArticleMan follows employees, grabs at cash register over wrong change dispute, cops...
An Albrightsville, Carbon County man is accused of following employees around a tractor supply business and grabbing at the cash register when police say he believed the business short changed him....
View ArticleWilson Borough police arrest 3 in heroin buy-bust in Kmart parking lot,...
Wilson Borough police on Thursday afternoon arrested three Monroe County residents after a buy-bust led to nearly 60 bags of heroin being recovered, a detective reports. A confidential informant...
View ArticleMan fought with police, tried to grab trooper’s rifle during drug raid,...
When the Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team entered an Easton home early Wednesday morning to help serve a search warrant in a drug case, a resident “actively fought” the...
View ArticleBethlehem Township police charge Easton man in heroin deals
Bethlehem Township police arrested an Easton man after two heroin deals were arranged in the city's West Ward, court papers say. A confidential informant told township police that a man named "Stacey"...
View Article$250K in drugs, 15 guns, $66K in cash recovered in drug raid, police say
Warrants served Thursday in Monroe County led authorities to make an arrest and recover more than $250,000 in drugs, 15 guns and $66,000 in cash, Stroud Area Regional police report. Robert Temple, 51,...
View ArticleMan had more than half-kilo of heroin in suitcase during traffic stop, police...
A 33-year-old man with a Florida driver’s license was behind the wheel on Tuesday morning of a 2010 BMW X5 that had such dark tinting on the windshield that a stationary Pennsylvania State Police...
View ArticleMore than 2 pounds of heroin recovered after I-78 traffic stop, police say
A kilo -- 2.2 pounds -- of heroin was recovered Wednesday after a traffic stop on Wednesday on Interstate 78 in Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania State Police report. Three men -- Hector Hinojoza,...
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