PHILADELPHIA \u2013 Two men have been charged in separate drug cases in the Lehigh Valley-area, according to the Attorney General’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Richie Rivera, 33, of Reading, was charged by indictment with possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
The indictment alleges that, on or about February 24 in Berks County, Rivera was found in possession of approximately 1.24 kilograms of heroin, approximately 435 grams of a mixture containing fentanyl, medetomidine, and xylazine, approximately 711 grams of cocaine, and approximately 206 grams of methamphetamine, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The indictment further alleges that, prior to possessing these narcotics, Rivera was convicted in October 2023 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, the news release details.<\/p>\n
If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by the Reading Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rosalynda M. Michetti.<\/p>\n
Samuel Paulino, 51, of Union City, New Jersey, was charged by indictment with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office.<\/p>\n
The indictment alleges that on or about March in Northampton County, Paulino was found in possession of approximately four kilograms of heroin and approximately six kilograms of cocaine, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert Schopf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2013 Two men have been charged in separate drug cases in the Lehigh Valley-area, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,31,805,28,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-154872","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-berks","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-lehighvalley","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-reading-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154872","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=154872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}