Police: Man tried to cheat urine test
CENTER TWP — A Butler County man is accused of trying to use clean urine to cheat on a drug test at the state parole and probation office in the township.
But David F. Marchinoski, 36, of Concord Township apparently didn't try to clean out his car before driving Monday to the office on Sunset Drive.
State police said a parole agent found a narcotic pill and other drug contraband in the vehicle.
In turn, police arrested Marchinoski on misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia and attempting to furnish drug-free urine.
He remains in the Butler County Prison on $10,000 bail. He's also being held on a parole detainer.
Marchinoski, a felon, “attempted to pass urine through a white plastic bottle” during the drug test, according to charging documents. The alleged ploy failed.
A search of the defendant's car also turned up a Subutex pill wrapped in plastic, police said, as well as seven empty glassine bags commonly used to hold heroin and two syringes.
Subutex is a brand name of the opioid buprenorphine, a prescription drug used to treat opioid addiction.
Marchinoski faces a preliminary hearing May 21 at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora.
