Shamokin and Coal Township police have filed several felony charges against two local men for delivering Oxycodone pills to an informant during separate incidents in November and March.
Christopher Bachorik, 42, of 108 S. Fifth St., Apt. B., Shamokin, and Joshua Greenwood, of 35, of 1103 E. Race St., Coal Township, were committed to Northumberland County Prison after failing to post $15,000 and $30,000 cash bail, respectively, at their arraignments Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic II.
Coal Township Patrolman Joshua Wynn and Shamokin Cpl. Bryan Primerano, who are members of the Northumberland-Montour Drug Task Force, filed three criminal complaints against Greenwood. The defendant was charged with three counts of delivery of a controlled substance, three counts of possession with intent to deliver controlled substance and two counts of criminal use of a communication facility in commission of a felony in connection with incidents in Coal Township and Shamokin on Nov. 2 and 20 and March 19.
According to the criminal complaints, in each instance, an informant advised police that Greenwood intended to delivery Oxycodone. The informant purchased from Greenwood four pills on Nov. 02, five on Nov. 20, and two on March 19. Police searched the informant and supplied "police controlled buy money" before each purchase.
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Wynn charged Bachorik with delivery of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility in commission of a felony in connection with an incident on March 22 in Shamokin.
According to a criminal complaint, an informant advised Wynn and Primerano during a meeting at the Shamokin Police Station that he had spoke to Bachorik by cell phone and made arrangements to purchase four Oxycodone pills.
Police searched the informant and supplied "police controlled buy money" before the purchase. The informant was under police supervision during the purchase, police said. The informant returned to the station with four pills, according to police.