Bangor Man Nabbed Selling 'Brick' of Heroin, Police Say

Written by Jack Tobias

A Bangor man is accused a selling a “brick” of heroin in an undercover buy Tuesday night in Plainfield Township.

Oris Alvin Barner Jr., 28, of 323 S. Fourth St., also was found to have crack cocaine and marijuana when searched at the township police station, court records say.

The crack cocaine and marijuana fell out of the bottom of his pants, the records say.

A criminal complaint filed by township Officer Scott Zabriskie says police used a “cooperating source” supplied with an unspecified amount of prerecorded money to buy the brick of heroin from Barner on William Street near the Pen Argyl line.

Barner pulled up in a beige 2008 Chevrolet Impala and made the transaction, the complaint says. Police arrested him shortly after that and recovered the prerecorded money.

The complaint does not say how much the heroin is worth on the street.

The search at the police station was the second time officers searched him in the case. And it was at the station that the crack cocaine and marijuana allegedly fell out of the bottom of his pants.

Barner is facing the following charges:

Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance (brick of heroin), criminal use of a communication facility (a cell phone to set up the heroin buy), tamper with/fabricate physical evidence, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and a single count of possession of marijuana.

He was arraigned by 2:30 Wednesday morning by on-duty District Judge Todd Strohe of Bangor and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $35,000 bail.