Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
Municipal, state, and federal law enforcement undertook searches on properties in Bristol Township and Falls Township early Tuesday morning.
The officers, troopers, and special agents were taking part in a drug investigation that led to the arrest of a Bristol Township man.
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Lawrence Willie Priester, 39, was charged Tuesday with a single count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He was arraigned by Senior District Judge Leonard Brown around 8:30 a.m. and jailed on 10 percent of $250,000 bail.
Priester is also facing charges in New Jersey, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s office.
Investigators wrote in court papers that a search warrant was executed at Hidden Forest Apartments in Fairless Hills’ Bristol Township section by township police, Bucks County Detectives, New Jersey State Police, and the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Philadelphia Field Division. Law enforcement found bags with about 2.02 pounds of fentanyl inside a black “Thank You” bag in a living room closet, a scale, sandwich bags, a grinder, and a bottle of mannitol, a common cutting agent.
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A detective said that the fentanyl had a street value of $120,000.
Priester was arrested when Falls Township Police, federal agents, New Jersey State Police, and Bucks County Detectives served the second search warrant at the Alexandria Apartments on Plaza Boulevard in the Morrisville section of Falls Township.
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“Whatever you find there belongs to me,” Priester told police during the search, according to a criminal complaint.
“When I think of all of the thousands of lives that we’ve potentially saved with this arrest and drug seizure, I’m grateful for law enforcement’s interstate investigation and collaboration in locking this guy up,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. “But the fight’s not over.”
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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