ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Two people have been charged after authorities seized drugs, loaded handguns, and cash from a residence in\u00a0Allentown, according to a news release from the Bethlehem Police Department.<\/p>\n
As a result of an ongoing drug investigation by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General with the assistance of the Bethlehem PD Vice Unit and the Allentown PD ERT, a drug search warrant was conducted at a residence at Greenleaf Street, police said. As a result, two \u201cwanted fugitives\u201d Jorge Sanchez and Giovanni Cardenas were found inside the residence, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
As a result of the search warrant, authorities seized more than $11,000 in cash, 508 grams of fentanyl, 12 grams of brown tar heroin, 34 grams of cocaine, 4.1 grams of marijuana, and three loaded handguns, police said.<\/p>\n
Sanchez and Cardenas are charged with three counts each of possession with the intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance,\u00a0conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, and person not to possess a firearm.<\/p>\n
Both were arraigned with bail being set at $500,000, and committed to Lehigh County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Two people have been charged after authorities seized drugs, loaded handguns, and cash from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-114645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114645","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=114645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}