{"id":240038,"date":"2026-07-10T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240038\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:52:23","slug":"reading-men-arrested-on-drug-gun-charges-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240038\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading men arrested on drug, gun charges | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities say two Reading men arrested this week are facing a multitude of drug and weapons charges.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, investigators from the Pennsylvania Attorney General&#8217;s Office along with Pa State Police executed a search warrant in the 500 block of Walnut Street in downtown Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained 36-year-old Jalil Jacques and searched the residence.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jalil Jacques\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/668ff48cca3d3.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jalil Jacques<\/p>\n<p>                                    Berks County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, police found multiple bags containing suspected crystal methamphetamine, heroin, MDMA and fentanyl along with packaging material, digital scales and $11,200.00 in U.S. currency.<\/p>\n<p>Police also recovered several handguns, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles and ammunition during their search of Jacques&#8217; home. Two of the handguns were previously reported stolen out of Berks County, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques is charged with multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>He is in Berks County Jail on $1,000,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, PSP and AG investigators served another warrant in the 600 block of Linden Street.<\/p>\n<p>There they detained 34-year-old Michael Santos-Rivera and conducted their search.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Michael Santos-Rivera\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/668ffeed022f7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Santos-Rivera<\/p>\n<p>                                    Berks County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p>Court documents state that police seized a quantity of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and MDMA as well as drug paraphernalia, a handgun and approximately $20,000.00 in U.S. currency.<\/p>\n<p>Santos-Rivera is charged with multiple counts of possession with intent and is in Berks County Jail on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The Reading Police Department confirmed that the two cases are related but did not specify what the specific relationship between Jacques and Santos-Rivera was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities say two Reading men arrested this week are facing a multitude of drug and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,103204,28,4601,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-240038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-jalil-jacques","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-attorney-general","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240038","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=240038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}