CRANBERRY TWP — Four alleged dealers were arraigned this week on charges of selling drugs, including marijuana wax and heroin in Cranberry and Adams townships.

A fifth case involved the sale of phony drugs.

The defendants all turned themselves in after officers with the Butler County Drug Task Force contacted them to say they were wanted on arrest warrants, authorities said.

The warrants were recently issued in connection with unrelated drug investigations between October 2014 and July of this year.

The decision to move now on the suspected drug traffickers was not a complicated one.

“These cases have been open and we wanted to close them,” county Detective Tim Fennell, who leads the drug task force, said Thursday.

The defendants are Wade J. Brueckman, 25, of Connoquenessing Township; Vincent B. Corrie Jr., 20, of Coraopolis, Allegheny County; Andrew C. Cypher, 26, of Forward Township; Nicholas Holscher, 19, of Cranberry Township; and Michael V. Vigna, 25, of Baden, Beaver County.

Brueckman is accused of selling 3.66 grams of marijuana wax on March 9 and 3.49 grams of marijuana wax on March 24 to a police informant, according to court documents.

The suspect allegedly used his cell phone to set up both deals, each for more than $200, outside an Adams Township restaurant.

Brueckman was arraigned Wednesday on two felony counts each of delivery and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility, and two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance. He is free on $1,000 bail.

Corrie is suspected of selling one ounce of marijuana for $300 to a police informant Oct. 22, 2014, in the parking lot of a Cranberry Township shopping plaza, documents said.

He was arraigned Wednesday on charges of delivery and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and possession of a controlled substance. He is free on his own recognizance.

Cypher is accused of selling 11 stamp bags of heroin on April 13 and 15 bags of heroin on April 28 to a police informant.

The deals, each for at least $180 and arranged by cell phone, were made in the parking lots of a restaurant and a townhouse complex, both in Cranberry Township, documents said.

Cypher was arraigned Wednesday on two felony counts each of delivery and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility, and two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance.

He is free on his own recognizance.

Holscher is suspected of selling 3.5 grams of marijuana on July 7 and on July 28 to a police informant. Documents said the first deal for $160 and the second one for $170 were set up by cell phone and completed outside different stores in Cranberry Township.

He was arraigned Monday on two felony counts each of delivery and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility, and two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance. He is free on $1,000 bail.

Vigna is accused of trafficking in counterfeit cocaine that he allegedly sold to a police informant on Oct. 31 and Nov. 26, 2014, outside two businesses in Cranberry Township.

Investigators said both deals, for $300 and $500, were made by Vigna on his cell phone, with the informant believing he was buying cocaine. But lab tests by state police later found no illegal substance in the purported drugs the suspect sold, documents said.

Vigna was arraigned Wednesday on two felony counts each of selling a noncontrolled substance without a prescription and criminal use of a communication facility, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance. He is free on his own recognizance.