Traffic stop nabs man with narcotics
Baggies of suspected crack cocaine, powder cocaine and narcotic pills were seized following a traffic stop late Saturday in Butler, city police said.
The driver, Mackenzie A. Chambers, 29, of Chambersburg, Franklin County, was arrested on felony drug possession and other charges.
A pair of officers working a plainclothes detail stopped Chambers about 11 p.m., police said, after they saw his car swerve into the oncoming lane on North Chestnut Street and sideswipe another vehicle parked on the side of the road.
While at Chambers' car, police allegedly saw a knotted plastic bag containing a white substance in the suspect's right hand. Police said they had to forcibly remove the suspect from the car.
The defendant tried to twist free and pull away from one of the officers, police said, as they wrestled in the middle of the road. Chambers was eventually placed in handcuffs.
Police said they found several plastic baggies tied in knots strewn about the area where the suspect and officer had tussled.
In all, police recovered five baggies — three with a combined 12 grams of suspected crack, one with 10 grams of suspected powder cocaine, and one with 23 individually wrapped pills of oxycodone hydrochloride, which is a potent painkiller available only by prescription.
Police said they searched the car and found a small digital scale.
District Judge Lewis Stoughton arraigned Chambers on three felony counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He also was arraigned on three counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest.
He remains in Butler County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bond.
