A city man faces booking on felony drug charges stemming from a police call last month to the Butler Public Library.

Carl E. Collins, 53, is accused of selling narcotics, according to an arrest warrant issued Tuesday.

Butler police said they found Collins at the library on North McKean Street around 11 a.m. Dec. 26 after they were called there for a woman acting erratically and harassing patrons.

The defendant was in an upstairs computer room with the woman, who officers believed was under the influence of drugs, according to court documents.

While speaking to Collins, police smelled what they suspected was marijuana. He allegedly turned over a baggie of suspected marijuana.

He also told police that he was carrying “medicine” in his jacket. An officer searched a pocket and allegedly found two pill bottles filled with suspected drug stamp bags.

Officers seized the bottles as well as a bag of unused syringes, documents said, before they took the suspect to the police station for a more thorough search.

Among the evidence seized in that search, police said, were 28 stamp bags and nine empty bags of suspected heroin, $320 in currency and a cell phone.

District Judge William Fullerton issued police a search warrant on Jan. 9 for Collins' phone. A narcotics agent with the state attorney general's office helped scour the phone's contents.

Police said they subsequently retrieved text message, documents said, that were “indicative of Collins using his cellular phone to arrange for the sales of narcotics.”

Fullerton signed the warrant on Tuesday for Collins' arrest on felony charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility.

He also is charged with misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia and possession of a small amount of marijuana.