Two Scranton men face multiple felony charges after authorities seized drugs and guns from a Linden Street apartment Thursday, according to the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officials served a search warrant at 1701 Linden St., Apt. 6, as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal drug activity.<\/p>\n
Officers took Joseph De Jesus Martinez, 32, and Fruquan Arleek Roper, 44, into custody.<\/p>\n
During the search, investigators seized about 1.5 pounds of methamphetamine, 3.64 ounces of powder cocaine, 10 ounces of processed marijuana and 90 Suboxone strips.<\/p>\n
Officers also recovered two handguns, five loaded magazines, a large quantity of ammunition and drug paraphernalia, including a digital scale. Documents found at the scene linked both men to the residence.<\/p>\n
Both Martinez and Roper are prohibited from possessing firearms due to prior felony convictions.<\/p>\n
The charges filed include multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances, possession of controlled substances and illegal possession of firearms.<\/p>\n
Both men remain at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $125,000 bail, with preliminary hearings scheduled for 9 a.m. on July 30 before District Judge Paul Keeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Scranton men face multiple felony charges after authorities seized drugs and guns from a Linden Street apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-247316","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","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247316","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=247316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}