Cops: Man sleeping in car in Greensburg found with 47 bricks of heroin, cocaine, anxiety pills and nearly $12K
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Greensburg Police doing a routine check of a man asleep in the driver’s seat of his car in a store parking lot Thursday wound up arresting him for illegal possession of 47 bricks of heroin, a plastic bag of cocaine, several hundred Xanax pills and multiple strips of Suboxone.
Patrolman Kerry Dieter said he also confiscated $11,996 that Brandon E. Carter, 35, of Charleroi, was carrying, plus a loaded 9 mm handgun in the front seat that had a round in the chamber during the 10:55 a.m. incident at the Sheetz on Harvey Avenue.
Dieter reported in court documents that, after he knocked on the window to check on Carter’s welfare, the Washington County man woke up, “began fumbling around his boot near the floor and reaching around his seat toward an unknown item.”
“I’m here to see my girl,” Dieter quoted Carter as telling him.
Dieter said he saw a “very large bulge” of cash protruding out of Carter’s left front pocket and asked him about it.
“That’s just my money,” Dieter said Carter told him.
When Carter couldn’t provide police with identification, police traced his identity through the license plate and asked him to step out of the Chevrolet Cruze.
Dieter said in court documents he asked Carter if he had any illegal substances and Carter replied he “might have a little weed.”
Police found several stamp bags and a small amount of cocaine stuffed inside a pill bottle he was carrying plus a plastic baggie also containing suspected cocaine.
A subsequent search of Carter’s car, resulted in the seizure of 47 bricks of heroin, Suboxone strips, a small amount of marijuana and “several hundred” Xanax pills in a backpack on the floor, according to court documents. Xanax is a prescription pill used to treat anxiety.
Police found the loaded handgun resting between seat and center console, Dieter said. Police said the handgun was reported stolen.
Dieter also reported that Carter had an active arrest warrant filed by Charleroi Police for aggravated assault for an incident there on July 5.
In 2016, Carter, who also has lived in Monessen and West Newton, was sentenced in Westmoreland County to serve 21-to-42 months in prison after pleading guilty to a drug delivery charge filed by Monessen Police, according to on-line dockets.
Carter is charged with four counts each of illegal possession and delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, illegal possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm without a license, possession of drug paraphernalia, receiving stolen property and public drunkenness. He was ordered by District Judge Chris Flanigan held in the county prison after failing to post $50,000 bond.