Police accuse city man of making drug deal
A Butler man is accused of selling heroin to a police informant in the city earlier this year.
Butler police on Thursday arrested 37-year-old Frank E. Zang Jr. on a felony warrant obtained by the Butler County Drug Task Force.
Zang allegedly sold four stamp bags of heroin to the informant for $40 at about 7 p.m. March 8 on West Brady Street, task force officer Ben Spangler, who also is a sergeant with the Butler Police Department, said in his affidavit.
Court documents also noted that the drug deal happened within 1,000 feet of a school zone, Emily Brittain Elementary School.
The task force Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant for the defendant.
A city officer, who knew about the warrant, on Thursday evening spotted Zang walking near East Brady and Second Street, where he was arrested.
District Judge Bill O'Donnell arraigned Zang on felony charges of delivery of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance.
He was placed in Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail following arraignment. His preliminary hearing was not immediately scheduled.
