Two Philadelphia men face felony charges after selling crack cocaine to a confidential informant in Scranton, authorities say.<\/p>\n
On June 12, officials from the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office met with a person who provided information about the distribution of cocaine in the area.<\/p>\n
The informant ordered a quantity of crack cocaine on a phone line recorded and monitored by investigators.<\/p>\n
During the recorded conversation, the informant was directed to a residence on Myrtle Street.<\/p>\n
The informant was given money to buy the drugs and outfitted with a recording device so investigators could record the conversation during the buy.<\/p>\n
Investigators kept the informant under surveillance as they traveled to the agreed-upon location.<\/p>\n
Once there, they spotted a Nissan Rogue SUV parked a short distance away and noticed two men in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
One of the men, later identified as Roger Branch of Philadelphia, exited the SUV, walked directly to the informant\u2019s car and entered it.<\/p>\n
There, covert video recording equipment installed in the informant\u2019s vehicle captured the sale of narcotics to the informant.<\/p>\n
Branch exited the informant\u2019s vehicle and went back to the Rogue.<\/p>\n
The informant turned over to investigators the crack cocaine purchased during the recorded transaction.<\/p>\n
Following completion of the transaction, the Rogue began to leave the area and was stopped by investigators, who identified the driver as Quintin Adams.<\/p>\n
Adams provided inconsistent statements involving his involvement in the transaction and was arrested.<\/p>\n
Branch and Adams each face a felony charge of attempt to deliver a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
Both remain in the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Both men have preliminary hearings scheduled for June 25 before District Judge Paul Keeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Philadelphia men face felony charges after selling crack cocaine to a confidential informant in Scranton, authorities say.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-221764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221764","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=221764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}