WEST READING, Pa. – Authorities say a West Reading man is under arrest and facing multiple charges related to drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
In April, Berks County Detectives began an investigation into alleged drug trafficking in the 300 block Chestnut Street, West Reading.<\/p>\n
Detectives say that investigation led them to 36-year-old Eric Emilio Delacruz, who is charged with multiple counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and related offenses.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Berks County Drug Task Force served a search warrant in the 300 block of Chestnut and seized the following items:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 735 grams of cocaine with a potential street value of $36,750.00<\/p>\n
\u00b7 744 fentanyl pills with a potential street value of $7,440.00<\/p>\n
\u00b7 24 grams of methamphetamine with a potential street value of $480.00<\/p>\n
\u00b7 300 grams of marijuana with a potential street value of $1,500.00<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Drug paraphernalia including scales and packaging material<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Over $20,000 in US currency<\/p>\n
Delacruz is currently being held on $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n
He is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. – Authorities say a West Reading man is under arrest and facing multiple charges related…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,10740,32769,12313,10665,28,736,128,130,129,707],"class_list":["post-60473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-drug-task-force","tag-eric-emilio-delacruz","tag-fentanyl","tag-illegal-drug-trade","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60473","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=60473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}