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Traffic stop leads to drug, firearms charges in Lancaster

LANCASTER — A traffic stop Sunday night led to drug and weapons charges for two Lancaster men, according to Lancaster police. Police stopped the vehicle a...
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LANCASTER — A traffic stop Sunday night led to drug and weapons charges for two Lancaster men, according to Lancaster police.

Police stopped the vehicle at the intersection of Conestoga and Mill Streets at 8:42 p.m. for traffic violations. The officers performing the stop noticed the strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle as they approached, police say.

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He is being held in Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail, police say.

Another passenger, Christian Enrique Figueroa-Ortiz, 21, was also arrested and charged with Providing False Identification to Law Enforcement and Possession of a Small Amount of Marijuana, police say.

A third passenger, a 16-year-old juvenile, was found to have been reported as a missing person/runaway from York. He was transferred to police in York County to be returned home. He will have an allegation against him filed in Lancaster County Juvenile Probation for Possession of Cocaine, police say.

 

The vehicle’s driver, James Rocha, 21, was cited with two summary traffic violations, police say.

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