Two men remain jailed on $100,000 bail after a weeklong undercover investigation culminated in a traffic stop on the McDade Expressway.<\/p>\n
Shawn O\u2019Connor, 39, of Scranton, and Anthony Evans, 38, of Plymouth, face felony charges of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine following a joint operation by the Pennsylvania State Police and the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office drug unit.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, an undercover officer contacted O\u2019Connor by phone on Jan. 8 to arrange a drug purchase.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 9, O\u2019Connor informed investigators he would need to travel to Plymouth to obtain the drug.<\/p>\n
Later in the day, O\u2019Connor traveled back to Scranton and agreed to meet the undercover officer at a Wood Street address.<\/p>\n
The undercover officer was given money to buy the drugs and outfitted with a recording device so investigators could record his conversation during the buy.<\/p>\n
At 3:30 p.m., O\u2019Connor and another man pulled up in a white sedan and told the undercover officer he needed \u201ctwo minutes\u201d and went inside the residence.<\/p>\n
Minutes later, O\u2019Connor came out of the residence, entered the undercover officer\u2019s vehicle and completed the drug transaction, exchanging a plastic bag of methamphetamine for marked money.<\/p>\n
The investigation continued on Jan. 12, when the undercover officer met with O\u2019Connor for a second time, again equipped with marked cash and a recording device.<\/p>\n
At about 5:30 p.m., O\u2019Connor left his residence and entered the undercover investigator\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
The two traveled to Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham in Dickson City, where Evans entered the vehicle with bags. The three traveled back to the Wood Street location, where the undercover officer purchased 10 bags of narcotics.<\/p>\n
Following the transaction, O\u2019Connor and Evans got into a vehicle and investigators followed.<\/p>\n
They conducted a traffic stop as the two traveled north on the expressway. Officers arrested O\u2019Connor and Evans.<\/p>\n
Both men are at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail, with preliminary hearings scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 22 before District Judge Laura Turlip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men remain jailed on $100,000 bail after a weeklong undercover investigation culminated in a traffic stop on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-87681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87681","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=87681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87681\/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=87681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}