ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Allentown police say they’ve broken up a drug ring.<\/p>\n
Nineteen people have been charged in connection with drug dealing in the 400 block of North Law Street and a parking lot adjacent to the 5th Street Water Park, according to a joint news release from the Allentown police chief and Lehigh County district attorney.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the offenses spanned over the last three months.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, which involved Homeland Security, police recovered four firearms, four vehicles and more than $13,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
Allentown Police Chief Glenn Granitz said citizen complaints and information from residents helped investigators make the arrests.<\/p>\n
Charged are:<\/p>\n
Arrested May 19:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ricky Hunter, DOB 12\/4\/72, with Possession with the Intent to Deliver, an ungraded felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Edgar Lopez, DOB 12\/8\/94, with Possession with the Intent to Deliver and Felon not to Possess a Firearm, a felony of the second degree.<\/p>\n
Arrested May 25:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jose Perez, DOB 7\/18\/82, with Possession with the Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
Arrested May 26:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Manuel Rodriguez, DOB 5\/29\/95, with Possession of Drugs, an ungraded misdemeanor.<\/p>\n
Arrested May 29:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Miguel Diaz, DOB 5\/14\/67, with Possession of Drugs.<\/p>\n
Arrested June 2:<\/p>\n
\u2022 James Holland, DOB 9\/1\/56, with Possession of Drugs.<\/p>\n
Arrested July 2:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jesus Velazquez-Feliciano, DOB 5\/12\/98, with Carrying a Firearm without a License, a felony of the third degree.<\/p>\n
Arrested July 13:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wilfredo Rivera, DOB 2\/27\/81, with Possession with Intent to Deliver and Resisting Arrest, a misdemeanor of the second degree.<\/p>\n
Arrested July 20:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Zakeem Sellars, DOB 10\/2\/79, with Possession with Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
Arrested July 27:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Miguel Flores, DOB 2\/22\/72, with Possession with Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
Arrested Jul 30:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Aurelio Pitre-Montalvo, DOB 11\/12\/70, with Possession with Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
Arrested Aug. 13:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sharif Hall, DOB 8\/14\/93, with Felon Not to Possess a Firearm; Possession with Intent to Deliver and Receiving Stolen Property, a felony of the second degree.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tyrell Singletary, DOB 10\/25\/92, with Possession of a Small Amount of Marijuana, an ungraded misdemeanor. Additional charges were added Aug. 19 that include Escape, a misdemeanor of the second degree; Felon Not to Possess a Firearm and Carrying a Firearm without a License and Delivery of a Controlled Substance, an ungraded felony.<\/p>\n
Arrested Aug. 20:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Treshard Vandunk, DOB 7\/21\/80, with four counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance, an ungraded felony; and one count of Possession with Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Najai Boatwright, DOB 11\/17\/83, with two counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wilfredo Pabon, DOB 11\/7\/87, with six counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance and one count of Possession with Intent to Deliver.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tyrell Wright, DOB 9\/2\/93, with Delivery of a Controlled Substance.<\/p>\n
\u2022 William Colon, DOB 10\/27\/64, with three counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Luis Cepeda Martinez, DOB 2\/7\/95, with two counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Allentown police say they’ve broken up a drug ring. Nineteen people have been charged in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-32314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32314","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=32314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}