SHAMOKIN - A Coal Township man charged Thursday with selling cocaine to an informant is believed to be the person connected to a shooting incident Monday morning at Fifth and Willow streets.
Lonzy Thomas Barnes, 28, whose last known address is South Owl Street, was arraigned at about 1:30 a.m. by on-call Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III on felonies of delivering cocaine, possession with intent to deliver cocaine and criminal use of a communication facility.
According to a criminal complaint filed by Cpls. Bryan Primerano and Jarrod Scandle, Barnes is accused of selling two plastic bags of cocaine for $200 to an informant in the city just after midnight Thursday. He was taken into custody a short time later at Sunbury and Ninth streets.
Police said Barnes, who is known by the nickname "L Burner," was committed by Gembic to Snyder County Prison in lieu of $25,000 cash bail. He is scheduled to face a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Police believe Barnes is the man who was spotted by a witness bleeding from his right arm after a shot was fired from a black Chevy Tahoe at Fifth and Willow streets at 1:20 p.m. Monday. He has not been charged in that incident.
Three other black people who were detained at the scene of the shooting, a black woman who is leasing the Tahoe that was later found in Sunbury, and multiple other witnesses have been interviewed by police, but no charges have been filed in the case.
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