{"id":244742,"date":"2026-07-16T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:04:08","slug":"pittston-man-charged-with-dealing-cocaine-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244742\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston man charged with dealing cocaine \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pittston man was arrested on drug-trafficking charges Wednesday following an undercover buy-bust operation, according to city police.<\/p>\n<p>Binneh Drammeh, 37, was arrested after allegedly selling cocaine in Pittston and surrounding areas on multiple occasions during the undercover operation.<\/p>\n<p>Officers raided his home at 10 Cherry Alley on Wednesday and found \u201cdistribution amounts\u201d of cocaine and marijuana along with drug packaging materials, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators arrested Drammeh on two felony counts of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend, 29-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Devereaux, was also arrested on charges alleging she obstructed justice and resisted arrest during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Joseph D. Spagnuolo Jr. arraigned the pair on Wednesday afternoon and set bail at $100,000 for Drammeh and $25,000 for Devereaux.<\/p>\n<p>They were being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility with a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittston man was arrested on drug-trafficking charges Wednesday following an undercover buy-bust operation, according to city police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-244742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","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\/244742","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=244742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}