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WILKES-BARRE &mdash; Drug agents arrested a man on felony drug trafficking charges during an early morning execution of a search warrant at his residence Tuesday.
				Lamar Thomas Brown, 34, was arrested when agents with Kingston and Wilkes-Barre police and the Luzerne County Drug Task Force served a search warrant at 80 Chester St. just before 8 a.m.
				Agents asked Brown if there was anything illegal inside the residence at which he replied there was &ldquo;a little bit&rsquo; inside a pocket of clothing in a bedroom closet, according to the criminal complaint.
				A quantity of heroin, fentanyl and crack cocaine and a large amount of cash were found inside the bedroom, the complaint says.
				Court records say Brown was one of several people arrested by state police in July 2013 after selling heroin on Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre.
				In that case, Brown was sentenced in March 2014 by Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas to 21-to-45 months in state prison after pleading guilty to a felony trafficking offense, court records say.
				Brown was arraigned Tuesday afternoon by District Judge Thomas Malloy in Wilkes-Barre on four counts of possession of a controlled substance and two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He was jailed at the county correctional facility for lack of $150,000 bail.

Heroin, crack cocaine found during search of Wilkes-Barre residence