A Reading man was arrested Friday after investigators said they searched his residence and found 9 pounds of marijuana and a handgun.<\/p>\n
Yobani Murillo-Zavala, 21, of the 500 block of Moss Street, is charged with possession and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
Murillo-Zavala was in the Berks County Central Processing Center awaiting arraignment later Friday.<\/p>\n
According to Berks County detectives:<\/p>\n
Detectives from the Berks County Drug Task Force received information in February regarding the sale of bulk quantities of marijuana by a resident of the 500 block of Moss Street.<\/p>\n
The investigation led detectives to buy marijuana from Murillo-Zavala.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, detectives obtained a warrant from District Judge Alvin Robinson to search Murillo-Zavala\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n
On Friday, task force members and state police went to the residence and detained Murillo-Zavala.<\/p>\n
They searched the residence and seized:<\/p>\n
\u2022 About 9 pounds of bulk marijuana with an estimated street value of $30,000.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A loaded .45-caliber handgun.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 $8,650.<\/p>\n
Detectives said the investigation is continuing and asked that anyone with information contact them at 610-478-7171.<\/p>\n
Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Alert Berks County by calling 877-373-9913, downloading the ALERTBERKS app on your mobile device, or via text\u00a0 message by typing ALERTBERKS along with your tip to 847411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man was arrested Friday after investigators said they searched his residence and found 9 pounds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-193460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193460","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=193460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}