Thursday, March 14, 2013
Details of an undercover investigation into a Towamencin woman's alleged pill-selling operation were revealed during a preliminary hearing on Thursday.
A Towamencin woman accused of illegally selling oxycodone pills to an undercover Lansdale detective is headed for a formal arraignment after a preliminary hearing Thursday in which an undercover police officer provided detailed descriptions of the arranged purchases that led to her January arrest. Aside from asking Magisterial District Judge Harold Borek for a tissue, 32-year-old Ebony Slocum sat mostly silent as the detective, whose name Patch is withholding to protect his identity, described working with a confidential informant to set up purchases of oxycodone-based pills from Slocum late last year. The detective said he later contacted Slocum directly to arrange pill purchases via phone calls and text messages, culminating in a January…
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Michael Smagalski, 29, of the 800 block of Continental Drive, Towamencin, has four active drug-related cases in the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court system
Towamencin resident Michael Smagalski, 29, — who is a defendant in four seperate active drug-related Montgomery County Common Pleas Court cases — is heading to county court Tuesday on a sixth drug-related case, this one involving alleged prescription pill dealing. Smagalski, of the 800 block of Continental Drive, at Towamencin Condominiums, was the target in a Montgomery County Drug Task Force operation, which involved alleged controlled purchases of drugs made via cell phone. He was arrested during a search warrant on Jan. 14. A search warrant service seized more than 640 prescription pills, according to an affidavit. At a preliminary hearing in Lansdale District Court Tuesday, Smagalski had three felony charges of criminal use of a …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
District Judge Harold Borek continued hearing because there was no court-certified Bengali interpreter assigned to the preliminary hearing of Jurell Smalls, 20. A felony and misdemeanor counts of Percoset possession were moved to county court
The preliminary hearing against 2011 convenience store robbery suspect Jurell Smalls, 20, was continued by District Judge Harold Borek Tuesday, due to a court-certified Bengali interpreter not assigned to the hearing. Borek chastised Lansdale Police and the Montgomery County prosecutor's office for not notifying Lansdale district court 38-1-28 that an official interpreter was needed for the hearing. Montgomery County ADA Heather Levandoski called victim Abdul Chowdhury and another Bengali man to the stand, but were stopped by Borek. Borek called recess and spoke with the county court administrator. "The court administrator instructs that, due to the fact there is an uncertified interpreter, I am prohibited from using him ... particularly …
Joe Anonymous
7:57 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Is there any new information about the Preliminary Hearing that took place on March 13th? more ›