{"id":147102,"date":"2026-03-24T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:36:06","slug":"driver-found-with-pound-of-meth-in-lower-merion-twp-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147102\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Found With Pound Of Meth In Lower Merion Twp.: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      The driver was pulled over for vehicle-code violations, authorities said.    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Mar 24, 2026 10:35 am EDT    <\/p>\n<p>LOWER MERION, PA \u2014 A man was arrested on Interstate 76 in Lower Merion Township after authorities say they found crystal methamphetamine in his car.<\/p>\n<p>State Police pulled over a driver for vehicle-code violations around 4:30 p.m. March 11 on I-76 West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/ardmore\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" class=\"article-subscribe-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say they noticed indicators of criminal activity during the stop. The driver \u2014 Fred S. Greenberg, 65, of Loganton \u2014 admitted to concealing a pound of meth, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>A search revealed additional crystal meth, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg was processed at the State Police station in Philadelphia and then detained at the Montgomery County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with drug offenses, including intent to manufacture or deliver.<\/p>\n<p>A judge set Greenberg&#8217;s bail at $99,000 during a March 12 arraignment. Greenberg, unable to post bail, has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg didn&#8217;t have an attorney listed in online court records on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver was pulled over for vehicle-code violations, authorities said. Mar 24, 2026 10:35 am EDT LOWER MERION,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-147102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147102","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=147102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}