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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; How much drug money can you fit into a Kool-Aid canister?</p><p>Nearly $33,000, allegedly.</p><p>That&#8217;s how much cash authorities say they recently found stashed in the South Grant Street apartment of an accused drug dealer.</p><p>The state Attorney General&#8217;s office on Thursday announced the arrest of Osvaldo Gonzalez, 26, who is alleged to have peddled drugs in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre since May 2018.</p><p>The Kool-Aid container with a false bottom was found above a refrigerator in the kitchen, authorities report. It contained $32,530. Police said they found $310 more in a bedroom plus two cell phones and an Access card in Gonzalez&#8217;s name.</p><p>Court papers show an informant first led authorities to Gonzalez. The informant knew him as &#8220;Poppy,&#8221; records show, and said he distributes &#8220;large quantities of heroin and methamphetamines.&#8221;</p><p>Court filings indicate authorities had Gonzalez under surveillance starting in June and they raided his Wilkes-Barre apartment in late December.</p><p>According to a press release from the AG&#8217;s office:</p><p>At the time of Gonzalez&#8217;s arrest, he was found to be in possession of 321 bags of fentanyl and $1,750 in cash.</p><p>When authorities searched his South Grant Street apartment, they found 123 grams of bulk fentanyl along with $32,840 in cash.</p><p>The AG&#8217;s office estimates the 123 grams, or 12,000 doses of fentanyl, have a $42,000 street value if it could have been manufactured.</p><p>They also found large amounts of packaging, scales, stampers and other distribution materials.</p><p>Gonzalez was arraigned by Lackawanna County District Judge Paul J. Ware on Tuesday on four counts of possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility and dealing in unlawful money.</p><p>Gonzalez was remanded to the Lackawanna County Correctional Facility for lack of $150,000.</p><p>He also faces charges from his arrest by the Wilkes-Barre City Police Department on similar charges.</p><p>The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General William Abraham.</p><p>AG Josh Shapiro said the Scranton Police Department, Lackawanna County District Attorney&#8217;s Office Detective Division, Wilkes-Barre Police Department, Plains Township Police Department, Luzerne County Drug Task Force and the Lackawanna County Adult Probation Office assisted on the case.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Gonzalez </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_Osvaldo-Gonzalez-AG-pic-01312019-2.jpg</photo0><caption0>Gonzalez </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_Fentanyl-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">These are bags of suspected fentanyl seized at Osvaldo Gonzalez&#8217;s apartment, according to investigators. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_Fentanyl-2.jpg</photo1><caption1>These are bags of suspected fentanyl seized at Osvaldo Gonzalez&#8217;s apartment, according to investigators. </caption1><photoCredit1>Courtesy Pa. Attorney General&#8217;s Office </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_KOOL-AID-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">This photo shows nearly $33,000 in alleged drug money that investigators say they seized from suspect Osvaldo Gonzalez&#8217;s South Grant Street apartment in Wilkes-Barre. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/web1_KOOL-AID-2.jpg</photo2><caption2>This photo shows nearly $33,000 in alleged drug money that investigators say they seized from suspect Osvaldo Gonzalez&#8217;s South Grant Street apartment in Wilkes-Barre. </caption2><photoCredit2>Courtesy Pa. Attorney General&#8217;s Office </photoCredit2></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Dan Stokes</p><p>dstokes@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Dan Stokes at 570-991-6389 or on Twitter @ByDanStokes</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Cops: Drug suspect had nearly $33K in Kool-Aid canister