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Man, 40, faces drug charges

He was arrested after traffic stop

CHERRY TWP — A Butler man remains jailed on felony and other drug charges stemming from his arrest following a traffic stop last week near Moniteau High School.

State police said they found 40-year-old Tony F. Smith Sr. with a half dozen packaged bags of marijuana and several hundreds of dollars after they pulled over the car he was riding in Friday night on Route 308 in Cherry Township.

Smith was arraigned Saturday on a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

He is in the Butler County Prison on $30,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for next Tuesday at District Judge Lewis Stoughton’s office in Chicora.

Smith was a passenger in a car that troopers pulled over about 8:30 p.m. Friday for having an unlit headlight, according to court documents.

Police smelled an odor of marijuana when they got up to the vehicle. The driver allowed troopers to look through her car. The search turned up Smith’s duffel bag.

In the bag, documents said, were six packaged bags of suspected marijuana, a scale, razor blade and $631 in currency.

Police also seized a small amount of unwrapped marijuana that was in the bag.

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