Police nabbed a suspected methamphetamine dealer from Dunmore on Monday after authorities say he traveled to Carbondale to sell his wares.
Robert James Andrewsh, 25, 313 E. Drinker St., Apt. 2, told his buyer to come meet him in the parking lot at Drive-N-Buy, according to a criminal complaint.
Andrewsh arrived in his charcoal pickup shortly before 8 p.m. Members of the Lackawanna County Drug Task Force pulled him over.
Officers searched him and found two spring-loaded knives along his waistband and 7.2 grams of methamphetamine in his front shirt pocket.
Carbondale police dog, Axel, helped officers find another 4.4. grams of psychedelic mushrooms.
Police also found 40 reclosable bags, plastic containers with methamphetamine residue, a round container used to conceal those items, $245 in cash and three notebooks with a list of names next to money values that indicate how much each person owes.
The methamphetamine investigation was a joint operation with Carbondale and Mayfield police and the drug task force.
Andrewsh faces drug and weapons charges.
Andrewsh is in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Nov. 21.
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