SHINGLEHOUSE – A team of about six area law enforcement
officials made a drug bust at a Shinglehouse trailer Friday
afternoon, netting the arrests of four people and charges handed
down against three others.
The drug charges, including possession of drugs to intent to
deliver, involved such drugs as LSD, cocaine and marijuana.
Shinglehouse Police Chief Bradley Buchholz, along with members
of the Coudersport Borough Police, Sweden Township Police (K-9),
Potter County Probation Department and Coudersport-based state
police, went to a trailer at 104 N. Puritan St. to arrest the
suspected drug dealers.
“I think things went pretty smooth,” Buchholz said after the
bust. Buchholz filed all the charges against the defendants, all
residents of Shinglehouse, a rural Potter County community of just
over 3,100 people.
Buchholz said this bust was the result of an eight-month
investigation.
During the bust, four were arrested, handcuffed and transported
to District Judge Barbara Easton’s office, just down the block from
the trailer.
“I don’t think we are different than any town,” Buchholz said.
“I think probably some parents would be surprised of the cocaine
and LSD available in our area, but it’s … not just
Shinglehouse.”
Easton arraigned four of the suspects.
Ashley Marie Hurd, 20, of 104 N. Puritan St., was charged with
an incident on July 19 at her residence.
She was charged with one count each of delivery of a controlled
substance -ðcocaine, a felony; possession of a controlled substance
– cocaine, a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia – a
plastic baggie, a misdemeanor. She was also charged with two counts
of criminal conspiracy, felonies.
Her sister, Cari Lynn Hurd, 22, of 948 Clara Road was charged
for an incident on July 18.
She was charged with one count each of delivery of a controlled
substance – oxycontin, a felony; possession of a controlled
substance, a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia – a
plastic wrapper, a misdemeanor.
As a result of the search Friday, Cari Hurd will have more
charges against her after officers seized about two grams of
cocaine, drug paraphernalia and an undetermined amount of marijuana
packaged for sale, Buchholz said.
Jason M. Tilley, 18, of 226 First St., was charged for an
incident on July 17 on Academy Street.
He was charged with one count each of possession with intent to
deliver a controlled substance, a felony; possession of a small
amount of marijuana, a misdemeanor; possession of drug
paraphernalia – a plastic baggie, a misdemeanor; and criminal
conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance with another person, a
felony.
Bail was set at $5,000 straight.
Nevan T. Reed, 19, of 139 Stevens St., was charged in the same
July 17 incident.
He, too, was charged with one count each of possession with
intent to deliver a controlled substance, a felony; possession of a
small amount of marijuana, a misdemeanor; possession of drug
paraphernalia – a plastic baggie, a misdemeanor; and criminal
conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance with another person, a
felony.
Bail for Reed was also set at $5,000 straight.
Charges were also filed against Robert Ellery Siebert, 23, of
104 N. Puritan St. He was charged along with Ashley Hurd after a
probation officer was doing a check on April 19 at the residence
where he found an allegedly stolen computer and drugs and called
Buchholz.
They were both charged with three counts of possession of a
small amount of marijuana, misdemeanors; four counts of possession
of drug paraphernalia – metal pipe, glass pipe, blue Hi-Liter pipe
and straw – misdemeanors; one count of receiving stolen property;
and two counts of possession of a controlled substance – cocaine,
oxycodone schedule II, misdemeanors.
Siebert was out on bail on unrelated charges from the
Coudersport-based state police.
As of early Friday evening, Siebert had not been picked up by
police.
Easton set bail for Ashley Hurd at $5,000 straight for both
cases – for a total of $10,000.
Two others currently incarcerated in Potter County Jail were
charged and a detainer was placed on them.
Richard Cody Frost, 22, of 948 Clara Road, was charged with an
incident on July 19 at 104 N. Puritan St.
He was charged one count each of delivery of a controlled
substance – cocaine, a felony; possession of a controlled substance
– cocaine, a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia – a
plastic baggie, a misdemeanor. He was also charged with two counts
of criminal conspiracy, felonies.
Cari Lynn Hurd was also charged for an incident on July 19.
She was charged with one count each of delivery of a controlled
substance – cocaine, a felony; possession of a controlled substance
– cocaine, a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia – a
plastic baggie, a misdemeanor. She was also charged with two counts
of criminal conspiracy, felonies.
Easton set bail for Cari Hurd at $5,000 straight for both cases
– for a total of $10,000.
Seth Anthony Moffitt, 22, of 104 N. Puritan St., was charged for
an incident on July 19 at his home.
Moffitt was charged with one count each of possession of a small
amount of marijuana, a misdemeanor; possession of drug
paraphernalia – a plastic pill bottle, a misdemeanor; and tampering
with physical evidence, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Moffitt was also charged for an incident on July 26 at his
home.
He was charged with one count each of delivery of a controlled
substance – LSD, a felony; possession of a controlled substance
-ðLSD, a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia –
plastic baggie, a misdemeanor.
All the charges, except the April 19 ones against Siebert and
Ashley Hurd, were brought with the help of a confidential
informant, Buchholz said.
Preliminary hearings were set for Thursday for all arraigned.
Easton said the cases will probably be continued, depending on
whether the defendants could attain attorneys in time for the
hearing.
The men were remanded to Potter County Jail and the females to
Tioga County Jail in Wellsboro since Potter County Jail does not
house females.
Buchholz, who thanked the community for its help in the
investigation, was also assisted by the Potter County District
Attorney Jeff Leber.
