Crime & Safety

Bags of Pot, Hash and Cocaine in Freemansburg Home, Police Say

58-year-old woman charged with running a drug sales operation from her Ramblewood Lane home.

 

Northampton County Drug Task Force agents found 43 individually wrapped bags of marijuana—along with a number of individually wrapped bags of cocaine and hashish—during a warrant search of a Freemansburg home on Thursday, according to court papers.

The home’s owner, 58-year-old Denise D. Brown of 959 Ramblewood Lane is facing multiple drug charges as a result.

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An affidavit of probable cause did not say what led the Freemansburg Police Department and the drug task force to obtain a search warrant for the home, but the search was conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday.

The court papers also indicate that officers found numerous items used for the packing, ingesting and storing of drugs, including zip-lock bags, scales, vacuum sealing machines, sandwich bags, glass smoking pipes and cigar wrappers.

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Brown, who returned to the home after the search had been completed, was charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance—one charge each for marijuana and cocaine, possession of hashish and possession of drug paraphernalia.

She was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Roy Manwaring and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail.


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