Cranberry Twp. man faces drug-selling charges
CRANBERRY TWP — A Cranberry Township man is facing felony charges for allegedly selling drugs to a confidential informant several times over a 10-month period.
The charges against Daniel Vicario, 23, of Cranberry, were filed this week by the state attorney general’s office, which worked with township police on the case. According to the complaint, on July 25, 2017, a confidential informant made contact with Vicario and another man, identified as Brandon Allan Myers, via the Snapchat messaging app. The informant arranged to meet the men at a restaurant on Freedom Road in Cranberry, the complaint states.
Myers arrived by himself, and the informant gave him $1,500. In return, the informant allegedly received a half-pound of marijuana in a vacuum-sealed bag, the complaint states.
On Aug. 3, 2017, the informant again arranged to purchase a half-pound of marijuana from Myers, this time at a location on Powell Road. Myers left Vicario’s residence to meet the informant, the complaint states, and was given $1,550 for the marijuana.
A third purchase was made on Aug. 23, with $1,500 given in an exchange for the half-pound of marijuana. In this instance, Vicario allegedly took the package of drugs from a backpack and handed it to Myers, “while instructing Myers to place the marijuana in the (informant’s) glove compartment,” the complaint states.
On Aug. 25, officials from the police department and Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics obtained a search warrant for Vicario’s home. According to the complaint, they allegedly found more than $15,000 in cash throughout the home, as well as marijuana, pills, steroids, HGH, guns and ammunition.
According to the complaint, officers learned Vicario had hired an attorney to recover $20,000 that was seized from him by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Chicago in April 2017. That money was reportedly seized during a narcotics raid.
Vicario faces 15 counts of felony manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver drugs, two felony counts of criminal use of a communication facility and a misdemeanor charge of use or possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bond, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 1 before District Judge David T. Kovach.
