City man accused of dealing drugs
Levittown — DOYLESTOWN
A Philadelphia man sold $1,400 worth of painkiller pills to a police informant outside the Central Bucks YMCA in Doylestown and was arrested several weeks later when he arrived to sell heroin and pills to the informant outside Central Bucks West High School, according to court records released Wednesday.
Joseph H. Smith IV, 26, of the 3800 block of Wyalusing Avenue, was carrying a semiautomatic handgun when police arrested him on Nov. 11 in the high school parking lot at night while the school was closed, records state.
In the trunk of the vehicle Smith drove to the scene, police found more than 150 Oxycodone pills, 80 Soma pills, 110 ecstasy tablets and 70-plus bags of heroin, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
The informant had arranged to purchase the pills and dope for $3,300, records said. Smith had hidden the haul of contraband in an amplifier police found in the trunk of the vehicle, court papers state.
On Oct. 21, Smith sold 83 Soma and 90 Oxycodone pills - both drugs are painkillers - to the informant for $1,400, records state.
The deal occurred about midnight in the parking lot of the YMCA on Memorial Drive, just across the street from Central Bucks West, according to police.
Smith came to the YMCA and the high school for pre-arranged deals with the informant.
Doylestown police Chief James Donnelly said the investigation is ongoing.
A passenger in Smith's car at the Oct. 21 deal was identified as Raheem Hicks, 27, of the 3000 block of Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. He is charged with conspiracy tied to drug dealing and drug possession.
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