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Police seize suspected heroin, mushrooms

4 face charges in hotel search

BUTLER TWP — Four people are accused in connection with a police call last week to a hotel room that ended with officers seizing baggies of psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana, a bottle containing crack cocaine and stamp bags of heroin.

Cindy L. Anderson, 38, of Clay Township was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Three others — Robin R. Lieser, 48, of Butler Township; David C. Masdea, 47, of Butler; and Mark A. Musser, 40, of Clay Township — are all charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Butler Township police said they went to the Days Inn on Route 8 south around 8 p.m. Feb. 12 after learning that a wanted person was in one of the rooms.

They later determined that Anderson and Masdea both had bench warrants out for them, police said. All four defendants were in the room.

Musser told police that he and Lieser, his girlfriend, had rented the room until Feb. 13, according to court documents.

While in the room, an officer noticed empty stamp bags, syringes and crack pipes, police said.

Police eventually seized nine glassine bags of suspected heroin that were labeled “YouTube” and “Osama bin Laden.”

Also found was a pill bottle containing suspected crack, documents said, and two Ziploc baggies containing what appeared to be marijuana.

Additionally, the officers confiscated various items of drug contraband.

A subsequent search of Anderson's purse and book bag, police said, turned up a Ziploc bag with psilocybin mushrooms, another stamp bag of suspected heroin and a digital scale.

Police released Musser and Lieser. Anderson and Masdea were taken to the Butler County Prison for their warrants. Anderson was released Friday.

The four defendants will receive their charges, all misdemeanors, by summons from the office of District Judge Kevin O'Donnell.

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