Police find drugs during traffic stop in Lansford

A traffic stop in Lansford led to the confiscation of methamphetamine.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by officer Jarrod Bulger of the Lansford Borough Police Department:

At 9:01 a.m. Dec. 4, Bulger saw a red Chevrolet Cavalier traveling westbound on East Patterson Street at the intersection of East Patterson Street and Pardee Street, with a brake light not functioning properly.

Bulger activated his emergency lights, stopping the car in the 400 block of East Patterson Street.

Bulger asked for identification from the driver, Jamie George, 24, of Summit Hill, and passenger, Francis Ney, 34, of Shenandoah.

Bulger asked who the car belonged to because the registration and insurance had different names. Ney said the vehicle was his. Bulger ran a check and found out Ney was wanted by Pennsylvania State Police Frackville barracks.

Ney was taken into custody.

Bulger, seeing the insurance was expired, called for the car to be impounded and asked George to get out. When she did, Bulger saw a clear plastic bag containing a crystallike substance consistent with methamphetamine.

Bulger took George into custody and requested another unit.

A search of the car turned up a silver digital scale, a black digital scale, a gold metal box containing a mirror with white powder residue, a silver makeup bag with a pink plastic bag containing the same clear white crystallike substance, several multicolor small plastic bags, an orange plastic prescription pill bottle containing 15 white oval pills, a black leather bag containing several hypodermic needles, and 20 cellphones and other electronic items.

George’s wallet contained $611 and Ney had $263.

Ney said the white pills were Advil. There were also hydrocodone bitartrate, a schedule II narcotic.

The methamphetamine weighed 2.9 grams.

George faces charges of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, criminal conspiracy engaging — manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, intentional possession of controlled substance, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

Ney faces charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal conspiracy and possession of drug paraphernalia.

George is free on bail, while Ney is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 straight bail.

Both are scheduled to have their preliminary hearings Wednesday before District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek of Lansford.