A Philadelphia man arrested Tuesday sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant, state troopers and Lackawanna County detectives charge.<\/p>\n
The informant told investigators with the Lackawanna County Drug Task Force they could purchase cocaine from a go-between, who accepts money for the drug and then contacts a dealer.<\/p>\n
Robert Berry, 32, is charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. The intermediary has not been charged.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint:<\/p>\n
The informant arranged to meet the intermediary Tuesday in Dunmore. Investigators provided $1,400 in buy money.<\/p>\n
Investigators watched the informant enter the go-between\u2019s residence at about 4:20 p.m. A red Jeep pulled in front of the residence about 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n
The intermediary got into the SUV briefly and then went back into the residence. The informant turned over crack cocaine to investigators minutes later.<\/p>\n
Detectives stopped the Jeep as it approached West Pine Street from Veterans Drive. They detained Berry and another man.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined Berry sold the drug to the go-between.<\/p>\n
Detectives found a plastic bag containing 3.6 grams of crack cocaine in\u00a0Berry\u2019s sweatshirt pocket and $520 in cash, including the buy money.<\/p>\n
He remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 15 before District Judge Joanne Corbett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man arrested Tuesday sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant, state troopers and Lackawanna County detectives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-83140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dunmore","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\/83140","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=83140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}