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Healthy Lifestyles: July 2016

<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Four men, including a fugitive from Philadelphia, are facing drug charges after a series of busts Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>According to Pennsylvania State Police, between approximately 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. the Troop P Vice/Narcotics Unit and the Wilkes-Barre Police Department Anti-Crime Unit conducted a series of buy-bust operations that resulted in the seizure of various quantities of crack cocaine and heroin.</p><p>In one case, plainclothes officers conducted a traffic stop on River Street on a car containing two of the suspects, taking them into custody at gunpoint.</p><p>Police identified the men arrested as Naheem W. Smith, of Wilkes Barre and Jeffrey Chandler Alexander, Gary M. Werts and Michael Paris, all of Philadelphia. Police said they discovered Werts was also a fugitive from justice out of Philadelphia.</p><p>Police said the charges filed included possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, delivery of a controlled substance, unlawful use of a telecommunication facility, criminal conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance.</p><p>Police said troopers from the Troop P Patrol Unit also took part in the operation.</p><p><strong>Editor's note:</strong> <em>This story has been corrected with regard to the name of the fugitive.</em></p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Alyssa Mursch</p><p>amursch@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

State police, Wilkes-Barre PD arrest four men in series of drug busts