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Drug Raid at South Side Home Nets 2 Arrests

Ecstasy and cocaine found within reach of minor daughter of arrested couple, police say.

Bethlehem police raided a South Side home early Tuesday morning and arrested a man and a woman on multiple felony drug charges, law enforcement officials said. Police brought a search warrant to 1135½ E. Third St., the home of Ramon A. Headley, 29, and Desiree Helena Bostic, 24, as a result of an investigation into illegal narcotics sales, police said. The raid and search was done at a little after 6 a.m. Inside, police found quantities of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, police said. A child, the daughter of Headley and Bostic, was also inside the home and had the cocaine and ecstasy within her reach, according to an arrest affidavit. Police also found a .38-caliber pistol, cash, drug paraphernalia, gang-related paraphernalia, cell…

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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. 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, …

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Cocaine Found in Wrecked Car Leads to Charges

Wallet found in car that hit house on Linden Street contained cocaine, Bethlehem police say.

  A police investigation of a Mercedes C300 hitting a Bethlehem house in September has led to drug charges against a city man. Police say they found identification in the car that led them to the suspect, Louis Rogan, 21, of 1766 W. Broad St. Court records do not say if Rogan was driving the 2009 dark-blue car when it hit a house at 2313 Linden St. early on Sept. 22, a Saturday. But the records say officers found a learner’s permit belonging to Rogan inside a wallet, where they also found a plastic bag of cocaine “tucked in the corner of one of the wallet’s pockets.” Officer Lawrence Meo III writes in a criminal complaint that in early October he spoke by telephone to a male identifying himself as Rogan, who said he could meet up with the …

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Cocaine Sting Leads to Arrest of Bethlehem Man

A Bethlehem man has been jailed following a southside cocaine sting

Bethlehem police have made an arrest in a controlled buy of cocaine that occurred almost a year ago on the south side. Carlos Juan Cintron Jr., 27, was arraigned Thursday for allegedly selling almost 50 grams of cocaine to a confidential informant on the night of March 2, 2012. The site of the alleged sale – the 500 block of Evans Street – is about seven blocks west of Cintron’s home on the 1200 block of E. Third Street. He was charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine and one count of criminal use of a communications facility. He was arraigned by District Judge Nancy Matos Gonzalez of Bethlehem and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail.

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Police: SouthSide Man Sold Pot, Cocaine

Suspect met with a confidential informant at Stefko Boulevard gas station and sold marijuana and cocaine, police allege. Drugs also allegedly found in his Broadway home.

  A South Bethlehem man who allegedly made a drug sale to a confidential police informant at a Stefko Boulevard gas station on Tuesday night is facing multiple felony charges, according to court records. Tracy Eugene Porter Jr., 27, of 818 Broadway was apprehended at the Shell gas station, 1907 Stefko Boulevard, at a little before 7 p.m., just after allegedly selling marijuana and cocaine to the informant, court records say. Bethlehem police then conducted a search of Porter’s home and found more cocaine and a digital scale, the affidavit says. Porter admitted that the drugs belonged to him in an interview with police, the court papers also say. Porter was charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine, one count of …

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City Woman Charged with Selling Cocaine

Rockland Street woman accused of delivering cocaine to a neighbor.

  A city woman was charged with possesion with intent to deliver after allegedly dropping of cocaine to a residence in Bethlehem. Raven Veanus, 22, of 826 Rockland Street delivered an unspecified amount of cocaine to a residence in the 800 block of Rockland Street on May 25, according to court records. A confidential informant received the cocaine and turned it over to Bethlehem Police, according to the arrest affidavit. Veanus was arraigned Wednesday before District Judge Patricia Romig-Passaro and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail.

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Man and Woman Charged with Selling Cocaine

Suspects allegedly sold cocaine to confidential police informant.

  A Bethlehem woman and a Fountain Hill man have been charged after selling cocaine to a confidential police informant Wednesday night just east of the North Side downtown, according to court records. The man, James Mitchell, 44, of 921 Seneca St. also was charged with resisting arrest during the incident, which occurred around 9:40 p.m.   And he was charged in an earlier incident with selling an unspecified amount of cocaine to a confidential informant for an unspecified price. This incident allegedly occurred at 11:11 p.m. December 6 in the parking lot of the Wendy's at 306 Broadway. In Wednesday's incident, the records say that Mitchell and Sondra Brown, 51, of 911 Mechanic St., second floor, sold an unspecified amount of cocaine for an…

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Bath Man Charged for Drugs, Drunk Driving in City

Police: Napoli was drunk, high on cocaine and had marijuana in his car trunk when he was arrested.

  A Bath man was formally charged Monday on multiple counts stemming from a December arrest, which came after he allegedly tried to pay for items at a city convenience store with counterfeit money, according to court records. The most serious of several charges against Angelo Nicholas Napoli, 23, of 7 Woodsdale Court, is possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Napoli will be subject to random urine screens before his trial under the conditions of his $25,000 unsecured bail. He was arraigned in front of District Judge James Narlesky. The incident began a little after midnight on December 12 when Napoli allegedly tried to pass the counterfeit money at the Wawa at 2525 Easton Ave., according to court records. According to the arrest …

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Drugs Found in Shooting Victim's Home

Cocaine, "packaged for sale," found by police during search of Jischke Street home.

  The South Bethlehem man shot by burglars he encountered at his own home Monday has been released from St. Luke’s Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. But Kevin Cook may be in for more trouble from the Bethlehem Police Department. Officers executing a search warrant at Cook’s home at 550 Jischke St. found cocaine “packaged for sale,” according to The Express-Times. Police also found marijuana and various pieces of drug paraphernalia at the home. Cook had given police consent to search his home to look for evidence in his shooting. Cook, 39, was shot twice after he walked in on three men who were burglarizing his home a little after 2:30 p.m. Monday. Later that night, police found the getaway vehicle, a blue SUV, in flames in a remote …

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Bethlehem Man, Hanover Woman Face Drug Charges

Hellertown police busted couple following a traffic violation stop.

A Bethlehem man and a Hanover Township, Lehigh County, woman were arrested and charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana by Hellertown police on Friday night, according to court records. The arrest was made following a traffic stop at Kichline Avenue and Main Street in the borough, according to the arrest warrant. According to police Luis D. Santana, 28, of 903 E. Sixth St., failed to stop his car at the appropriate spot for a red light. The arrest warrant said that the officer found a clear plastic bag containing marijuana and nine more small plastic containers, one of which contained marijuana, in the back seat. The passenger in Santana’s car, Jessica Ann Maree, 20, of 3350 Airport Road, Hanover Township, was also taken …

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