A Scranton man faces felony drug charges after the sale of cocaine to a confidential informant, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Porfirio Bank Sotomayor, 35, of Birch Street, is accused of selling the illegal drug to an informant earlier this month.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the informant told county law enforcement officers he could purchase cocaine from a man known as \u201cDido,\u201d later identified as Sotomayor.<\/p>\n
Officers recorded the informant\u2019s communications with Sotomayor, during which the two planned a drug transaction at a specific location.<\/p>\n
A team of Lackawanna County detectives and Pennsylvania State Police Vice Unit troopers responded to the meeting location in South Scranton to observe the transaction.<\/p>\n
Additional investigators kept the informant under surveillance as he traveled to the agreed-upon location.<\/p>\n
During the transaction, investigators could hear Sotomayor and the informant discussing the sale.<\/p>\n
Following the transaction, officers moved in to arrest Sotomayor, who was in possession of the money provided to the informant for the purchase.<\/p>\n
The informant confirmed Sotomayor had handed over a quantity of plastic bags containing cocaine in exchange for the cash.<\/p>\n
Investigators searched Sotomayor and found the cellphone and money used during the sale, as well as eight suboxone strips.<\/p>\n
He is charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal use of a cellphone and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Sotomayor remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. on April 2 before District Judge Sean Gallagher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man faces felony drug charges after the sale of cocaine to a confidential informant, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8467,68282,178,180,179,68283],"class_list":["post-149514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-drug-transaction","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sotomayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149514","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=149514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}