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First Posted: 9/16/2014 BUTLER TWP. &#8212; State police at Hazleton said they recovered 1,073 heroin packets in a plastic shopping bag stuffed under the driver&#8217;s seat of a vehicle stopped on state Route 309 early Tuesday morning.
Raheem Harris, 37, of East Orange, New Jersey, was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, false identification to law enforcement and driving without a license. He was jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $50,000 bail.
State police said Harris was driving a Chevrolet Impala that was stopped for lane drifting on Route 309 at about 2:20 a.m. Harris used another name to identify himself telling troopers he only had a permit license, according to the criminal complaint.
Harris was detained and taken for a LiveScan, which scanned his fingerprints that produced his real name, the complaint says.
State police said a canine detected narcotics inside the car.
A search of the car resulted in a plastic shopping bag filled with heroin packets under the driver&#8217;s seat, the complaint says.
Harris told troopers he has an uncle in Hazleton but was in town to &#8220;see a girl,&#8221; according to the complaint.

More than 1,000 heroin packets seized