A Reading man who was wanted on a parole violation warrant was apprehended in a city apartment where crack cocaine, marijuana and drug-packaging materials were found on the dining table.<\/p>\n
Emil DeJesus-Cordova, 24, was charged with possessing and intending to deliver controlled substances and possessing a firearm while prohibited. A revolver was found concealed in the trunk of one of his cars, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Although officials didn\u2019t specify the violation, court records indicate that DeJesus-Cordova, who was on probation for fleeing police in Muhlenberg Township in 2023, was recently charged by Laureldale police with robbery. Police said he took an ex-girlfriend\u2019s cellphone by force on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n
DeJesus-Cordova was committed to Berks County Jail in lieu of a total of $300,000 bail following arraignment Friday night before District Judge Sandra L. Fegley in Reading Central Court.<\/p>\n
In addition to robbery in the Muhlenberg Township case, he was charged with possessing a firearm while prohibited, possessing and intending to deliver illegal narcotics, and possessing drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Reading police provided this account in court records:<\/p>\n
On Friday about 6:30 p.m., city police were detailed to a unit in an apartment building in the 2000 block of Lorraine Road at the request of a Berks County parole officer.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, Dejesus-Cordova was seated in handcuffs at the dining table. On the table were drugs and paraphernalia that the probation officer saw when they entered the apartment in search of Dejesus-Cordova: cigarette rolling papers, a mechanical grinder, small plastic pop-top vials containing crack cocaine, and a large quantity of drug-packing materials.<\/p>\n
Next to the table was a bucket containing used and unused pop-top vials and two sandwich bags \u2014 one containing marijuana and one containing crack.<\/p>\n
\u200bDejesus-Cordova was found in possession of car keys to two vehicles parked outside the building. A search of one of the vehicles revealed a replica airsoft gun. A revolver along with Dejesus-Cordova\u2019s Social Security card were found in the spare-tire compartment of the trunk of the other vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man who was wanted on a parole violation warrant was apprehended in a city apartment where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-84792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84792","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=84792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}