A Penn Township faces a hearing in July on charges he had empty stamp bags of heroin in Butler.

City police found 39-year-old Nathan J. Vanderzee about 8:30 a.m. May 16 after being called to an Elm Street home about a man on the porch, with a knife and wearing a Captain America mask

When officers got there, according to court documents, Vanderzee did not have the knife. Police subsequently searched him.

They found no weapons, police said, but turned up several empty glassine bags of suspected heroin in a back pants pocket.

Police on May 22 charged Vanderzee with a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. His preliminary hearing is set for July 30.

The incident at the time did not sit well with the defendant, who told the Butler Eagle that police acted inappropriately.

Vanderzee said he was minding his own business at a friend's house, throwing a hunting knife into the porch's wood floor when officers showed up and eventually searched him.

He said he never posed a danger to anyone.

Vanderzee also denied wearing the mask. Police said he told officers he was wearing the mask.