Marijuana Found in Car in Hit-Run Accident, Police Say

An Easton man involved in a hit-and-run accident in the city was found to have marijuana, packaging material and several stimulant pills in a backpack and in the car in which he was riding, court records say.

The arrest Thursday of Freddie Salvator Garcia, 18, was made at the 25th Street Shopping Center in Palmer Township because the car in which he was a passenger was stopped there. The records do not say exactly where in Easton the accident occurred.

The records identify the driver of the maroon 1998 Ford Contour 4-door with New York license plates as Garcia’s girlfriend, also listed at one point as a “co-defendant.”

But there was no information on any possible charges against her in Garcia’s file and online court records. The records list the time of the shopping center incident as 12:33 p.m.

According to a criminal complaint filed by Palmer Officer Keith Border, Garcia admitted that the backpack on the floor behind the driver’s seat was his.

When police asked him what was in it, Garcia replied “weed,” the complaint says. Police earlier asked Garcia and his girlfriend if anything illegal was in the car and they replied “no … you can check.”

Police allegedly found marijuana packaged in 1-inch-square ziplock baggies and other baggies of assorted sizes “consistent with packaging for delivery.”

In addition to marijuana and baggies, police allegedly discovered the backpack held a clear ziplock baggie containing five orange capsules marked “Adderall 30mg." Adderall is a central nervous system stimulant.

Police found a single pill -- orange in color and oval in shape – on the rear window deck. It turned out to be a .5mg pill of Alprazolam, also known as Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.

The complaint also says that Border found Garcia to be “very nervous” while waiting for an Easton officer to arrive concerning the earlier crash.

Garcia, of 701 Wood Ave., Apt. 1, is facing of list of drug-related charges connected to the marijuana, packaging, Adderall and Alprazolam allegedly found.

He also was charged with criminal conspiracy to possess a small amount of marijuana. The complaint says Garcia and his girlfriend had the marijuana “for at least three days together while in the Easton area and Palmer Township.”

Garcia was arraigned shortly after 11 Thursday night by on-duty District Judge Diane Marakovits of Northampton and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bail.