SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A multi-agency drug investigation has led to the arrest of a Lackawanna County man after investigators say they seized large quantities of methamphetamine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms during a search of his home.<\/p>\n
Thomas Hazelton, of Clarks Summit, was taken into custody Thursday in Scranton following an investigation led by the Pennsylvania State Police Troop R Vice Unit, the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office Drug Unit, the Scranton Police Department Street Crimes Unit, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and the Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, officers later executed a court-authorized search warrant at Hazelton’s residence on Milwaukee Road in Newton Township.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the search uncovered approximately 1.5 pounds of methamphetamine, about one pound of processed marijuana, 5.4 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms, roughly $6,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint states Hazelton is charged with three felony counts of possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Investigators allege the methamphetamine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms were intended for distribution.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher credited the collaborative effort among local, state and federal agencies for removing what he described as a significant quantity of illegal drugs from the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A multi-agency drug investigation has led to the arrest of a Lackawanna County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-251241","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\/251241","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=251241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}