{"id":208488,"date":"2026-06-02T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208488\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:40:22","slug":"cocaine-in-pa-childs-daycare-lunch-bag-uncovers-drug-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208488\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine In PA Child&#8217;s Daycare Lunch Bag Uncovers Drug Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Arter and Joel Rodriguez-Melendez were arrested after Carroll Township Police responded to a daycare in Dillsburg on Thursday, May 28, for a report that cocaine had been found in a child&#8217;s lunch bag, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery prompted investigators to obtain a search warrant for the pair&#8217;s home in the first block of Walmar Manor in Franklin Township, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers executed the warrant, they found drugs, cash, and packaging materials inside the residence, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Arter and Rodriguez-Melendez were taken into custody and transported to York County Central Booking, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Carroll Township Police Department was assisted by the York County Drug Task Force during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to the case is asked to contact Detective Ben Martin at 717-432-3317.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Arter and Joel Rodriguez-Melendez were arrested after Carroll Township Police responded to a daycare in Dillsburg on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-208488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208488","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=208488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}