{"id":167416,"date":"2026-04-16T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:42:07","slug":"pittston-police-charge-man-with-drug-trafficking-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167416\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston police charge man with drug trafficking \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kingston man is facing drug-trafficking charges alleging he sold methamphetamine and marijuana to a confidential informant during an investigation by Pittston police.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Shah Johnson, 46, is accused of selling drugs during several controlled buys conducted throughout the investigation, which began in February 2025, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators arrested Johnson on Wednesday on three felony counts each of drug trafficking and criminal use of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Alexandra Kokura Kravitz arraigned him on the charges and set bail at $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility with a preliminary hearing scheduled for April 21.<\/p>\n<p>City police were assisted in the investigation by the Luzerne County Drug Task Force along with police from Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kingston man is facing drug-trafficking charges alleging he sold methamphetamine and marijuana to a confidential informant during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-167416","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-local-news","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167416","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=167416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}