SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Two Scranton residents are facing multiple drug and firearms charges after authorities say investigators uncovered large quantities of narcotics, firearms and ammunition during the execution of a search warrant this week.<\/p>\n
The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that Joseph De Jesus Martinez and Fruquan Arleek Roper were charged following a joint investigation conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police Troop R Vice Unit, Blakely Police Department, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and the district attorney’s office.<\/p>\n
Investigators executed a search warrant on July 16 at 1701 Linden St., Apartment 6, as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected illegal drug activity.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, officers seized approximately:<\/p>\n
1.5 pounds of methamphetamine3.64 ounces of cocaine10 ounces of processed marijuana90 suboxone strips<\/p>\n
Investigators also recovered two handguns, five loaded magazines, including one extended magazine, a large quantity of ammunition and drug paraphernalia, including a digital scale.<\/p>\n
Authorities said documents recovered during the search linked both Martinez and Roper to the residence.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said both defendants are prohibited from possessing firearms because of prior felony convictions.<\/p>\n
The pair have been charged with multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances, possession of controlled substances, persons not to possess firearms, and related offenses.<\/p>\n
The Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office said the investigation was conducted in partnership with the Pennsylvania State Police Troop R Vice Unit, the Blakely Police Department and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n
Court records were not immediately available to indicate whether either defendant has retained legal counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Two Scranton residents are facing multiple drug and firearms charges after authorities say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-246046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246046","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=246046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}