A Reading man has been arrested after Berks County detectives said they searched his residence and seized drugs with a street value of $9,800 along with two firearms.<\/p>\n
Diamonte P. Sims, 24, of the 600 block of Brookline Plaza is charged with possessing and intending to deliver a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia, person not to possess firearms and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n
According to a release from the district attorney\u2019s office:<\/p>\n
As part of an ongoing drug investigation, detectives from the Berks County Drug Task Force determined Sims was selling drugs from his residence.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, they obtained a warrant to search the residence.<\/p>\n
On Friday about 9 a.m., they went to the residence, searched it and seized the following:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Packaged powder and crack cocaine.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Unidentified pills believed to be controlled substances.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Packaging materials and other items commonly associated with the distribution of illegal narcotics.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Two firearms.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Sims is prohibited from possessing firearms because of a prior conviction. Further details of the prior conviction were unavailable.<\/p>\n
Detectives also determined that one of the firearms seized, a 9 mm pistol, had been reported stolen in Reading.<\/p>\n
Sims was taken into custody and taken to the sheriff\u2019s central processing center, where he was awaiting arraignment later Friday.<\/p>\n
The investigation continues, and anyone with further information is asked to contact county detectives at 610-478-7171.<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips also can be submitted to Crime Alert Berks County by calling 877-373-9913, downloading the ALERTBERKS appon their mobile device or via text message by typing ALERTBERKS along with their tip to 847411.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man has been arrested after Berks County detectives said they searched his residence and seized drugs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-269746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269746","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=269746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}