A couple who sold an animal tranquilizer to a confidential informant and warned them about the dangers of the drug face felony drug charges, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday,\u00a0 Lackawanna County Detective John Munley met with a confidential informant regarding tranq sales in Scranton.<\/p>\n
Tranq is the street name for Xylazine, a powerful animal tranquilizer that is not approved for human consumption and is usually mixed with drugs like heroin and fentanyl.<\/p>\n
Trang Is commonly purchased in the Kensington area of Philadelphia and transported to Lackawanna County for drug dealers to sell, investigators said.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint:<\/p>\n
The informant said they could purchase the drug from Brian Kehl, 42, who was willing to come to the area to make money from drug sales.<\/p>\n
The informant told investigators Kehl\u2019s partner, Hailey Hafer, 21, would be driving him to the area.<\/p>\n
Investigators intercepted numerous text messages between Kehl and the informant regarding the purchase of the drug.<\/p>\n
At one point, Kehl warned the informant by text to be careful when injecting the tranq because he didn\u2019t want to go to jail for \u201cdrug delivery resulting in death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators provided the informant with a specific amount of money to make the purchase, and outfitted them with a covert audio recording device.<\/p>\n
An arrest team consisting of Lackawanna County drug detectives and Pennsylvania State Police Vice Unit troopers set up surveillance near the agreed-upon location on Cedar Avenue in South Scranton.<\/p>\n
Investigators watched as the informant met with Kehl and he handed over a quantity of tranq in exchange for cash.<\/p>\n
Kehl again spoke with the informant about the strength of the drug and said he would soon have more for sale.<\/p>\n
After the informant turned over the drug to investigators, county detectives and state troopers detained Kehl and Hafer.<\/p>\n
Kehl admitted to the drug sale and Hafer admitted to driving him to make the sale.<\/p>\n
Kehl and Hafer face felony charges of possession with intent to deliver.\u00a0Kehl is also charged with criminal use of a cellphone.<\/p>\n
Both remain in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of bail. Kehl\u2019s was set at $75,000 and Hafer\u2019s at $25,000.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 23 before District Judge Sean McGraw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple who sold an animal tranquilizer to a confidential informant and warned them about the dangers of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-8803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","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=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/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=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}