A Scranton man arrested on charges he sold crack cocaine attempted to run away after he was taken into custody by Lackawanna County detectives, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Detectives charged Sharrieff D. Carter, 46, with two counts of manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, and a single count each of criminal use of a communication facility, escape, resisting arrest, tampering with\/fabricating physical evidence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Carter met with a confidential informant in downtown Scranton on Tuesday, sold the informant a zip-close bag containing crack cocaine and left, detectives wrote in a criminal complaint. Detectives tracked Carter by video surveillance and took him into custody when he got to the corner of Linden Street and North Washington Avenue. They found $178 and a cellphone the informant said he used to facilitate his transactions, and Carter told detectives he had additional crack cocaine in his pants.<\/p>\n
Detectives transported Carter to the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office and, as they tried to take him into the building, Carter bolted through the parking lot, according to the complaint. A detective tackled him, at which time Carter threw the additional crack cocaine onto the ground. Detectives later recovered the drugs, and the incident was captured on video.<\/p>\n
Both the drugs purchased by the confidential informant and the drugs Carter threw on the ground later tested positive as crack cocaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to thank our Drug Task Force officers for their hard work and dedication,\u201d District Attorney Brian Gallagher said in a statement. \u201cThrough their investigations and arrests, they are reducing the amount of drugs available on our streets and making our community safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter was arraigned Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge Christopher Szewczyk, who set bail at $150,000. He was taken to the Lackawanna County Prison, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Oct. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man arrested on charges he sold crack cocaine attempted to run away after he was taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307281,"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-307280","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\/307280","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=307280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}