READING, Pa. – Investigators in Reading say a routine traffic stop that turned into a police pursuit led to the seizure of a large-scale stash of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
On the evening of January 7, Reading Police on patrol in the area of Cotton and S. 15th streets observed a vehicle with an expired registration.<\/p>\n
Officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop, at which time the vehicle fled, resulting in a pursuit.<\/p>\n
Police say it eventually came to a stop at a dead end, and the driver, 54-year-old Joe Jenkins, was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
During the course of the investigation, officers located approximately 10 pounds of methamphetamine inside the vehicle, with an estimated street value of $227,000.<\/p>\n
Jenkins is charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, fleeing and eluding and related offenses.<\/p>\n
Online court records list him in custody at Berks County Jail on $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Investigators in Reading say a routine traffic stop that turned into a police pursuit led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,8335,43441,36529,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-87014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-jail","tag-joe-jenkins","tag-methamphetamine","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87014","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=87014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}