{"id":103000,"date":"2026-02-02T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:07","slug":"two-scranton-women-charged-after-moosic-drug-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103000\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Scranton women charged after Moosic drug sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moosic police charged two women in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/2026\/01\/27\/two-charged-in-drug-investigation-in-moosic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drug sweep at a hotel Jan. 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Belinda Cadwalder, 32, and Dakota Christie, 31, both of Scranton, face misdemeanor charges of possessing a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, filed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a criminal complaint, Angelina Marie Moore, of Moosic, told staff at the Townplace Suites Hotel on Radcliffe Drive that someone had overdosed in one of the rooms she had rented.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers were able to get into the room and found Cadwalder, of 622 Ferdinand St., and Christie, of 934 Sanderson Ave., neither of whom had overdosed.<\/p>\n<p>Police noted there was a glass pipe sitting next to a \u201cline of white powder\u201d in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Both Cadwalder and Christie began yelling that the drugs weren\u2019t theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel staff told officers that Moore had rented four rooms at the hotel, which she said were for family and friends who wanted to use the swimming pool for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, 36, was arrested and charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview, Moore said Rafael Alvarez, 42, of Scranton, owned narcotics found in the hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was charged with misdemeanor possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and related charges Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Their preliminary hearings are scheduled for Feb. 19 before District Judge Paul Keeler.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwader and Christie have a preliminary hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. on Feb. 19 before District Judge George Seig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moosic police charged two women in connection with a drug sweep at a hotel Jan. 18. Belinda Cadwalder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,1214,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-103000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-moosic","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}