A 49-year-old Scranton man faces charges after police said he sold drugs to a confidential informant in the city.<\/p>\n
Jason Greco, of Crown Circle Drive, is charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, Lackawanna County Detective John Munley met with a confidential informant on Oct. 20 regarding suspected cocaine sales in South Scranton.<\/p>\n
The informant said Greco routinely took money from buyers and then retrieved cocaine from a supplier, returning to deliver it.<\/p>\n
The informant was fitted with a covert listening device and provided with marked cash for the transaction. Investigators also documented text messages between the two while they were planning the drug buy.<\/p>\n
After the informant met with Greco and gave him marked bills, officers spotted Greco walking toward Pittston Avenue and Gibbons Street while talking on a cellphone.<\/p>\n
A short time later, Greco got into a third man\u2019s vehicle, shortly before returning to the informant and handing over a clear plastic bag containing cocaine.<\/p>\n
Investigators took the driver of the vehicle into custody and would later arrest Greco. A search of the driver\u2019s car yielded the marked cash used for the drug transaction.<\/p>\n
The driver allegedly admitted he sold cocaine for someone \u201chigher up\u201d in a drug organization. Court records indicate he has not been charged in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
The Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office Drug Unit, the Pennsylvania State Police Vice Unit and the Scranton Police Department Street Crimes Unit investigated the incident.<\/p>\n
Greco was arraigned on Friday before District Judge Sean McGraw. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 49-year-old Scranton man faces charges after police said he sold drugs to a confidential informant in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181,729],"class_list":["post-323805","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","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323805","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=323805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}