3/15/17
by News Department on 03/15/17Drug Charges...
A man was arrested after calling a Shenandoah police cellphone offering to sell methamphetamine, authorities said.
According to the Republican Herald, Shenandoah Police Chief George Carado identified the man as 34 year old Charles E. McDowell, whose last known address was in Girardville.
Carado said that on March 2 a person, later identified as McDowell, began texting a department telephone number, offering to sell methamphetamine.
Police made arrangements to meet the man to purchase $200 worth of methamphetamine. Carado said the man was then taken into custody and the pre-recorded money recovered.
He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Stephen J. Bayer, Tamaqua, and committed to Schuylkill County Prison unable to post $50,000 straight cash bail.
McDowell will now have to answer to the charges against him at a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Anthony J. Kilker, Shenandoah.
