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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A city man who police say hid a bag of heroin inside his anus after they suspected him of dealing the drug was convicted by a county jury Tuesday, only he wasn&#8217;t in the courtroom to learn his fate.</p><p>Sherman Warren Wilborne, 32, of Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, never returned to the Luzerne County Courthouse following a lunch recess midway through his trial on a pair of felony drug charges.</p><p>The no-show perplexed Wilborne&#8217;s attorney, Mary Deady, who said she had no indication Wilborne would flee.</p><p>&#8220;We picked the jury, did our openings, called the first witness, then we broke for lunch and he never returned,&#8221; Deady said, noting multiple attempts to reach him were unsuccessful. His whereabouts remained unknown Tuesday evening.</p><p>Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas issued a warrant for Wilborne&#8217;s arrest and revoked his bail.</p><p>The trial, meanwhile, continued on without Wilborne, who had previously been convicted of criminal trespass and providing a false identification to a law enforcement officer.</p><p>A county jury took about an hour to convict him on both counts related to a March 2015 arrest in which Wilborne was accused of selling heroin to another man. At city police headquarters, the affidavit says, Wilborne initially objected to a strip search before confessing to officers he had the drugs inside his anal cavity.</p><p>Lupas scheduled Wilborne&#8217;s sentencing for Dec. 12.</p><p>&#8220;If he still hasn&#8217;t been apprehended, that could obviously change,&#8221; the judge said.</p><style>
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Defendant who hid drugs in anus bolts from trial during lunch recess