An Albrightsville man has waived his right to a preliminary hearing on multiple drug and gun possession charges after a raid in Penn Forest Township.

State police at Lehighton detailed the case against Francis McHugh III:

At 6:01 a.m. Oct. 27, the State Police Special Emergency Response team was assisting troopers to execute a search warrant.

McHugh, 37, was on the bed in the master bedroom.

A loaded semi-automatic pistol without a serial number and a loaded magazine with 12 cartridges of 9 mm inserted in the magazine were within his reach.

He also had a glass pipe with residue, and a cellphone. A black backpack had a digital scale, smoking devices, hypodermic needles, and a small composition notebook with drug transaction logs, seven additional cellphones, two blue pills with an unknown brown substance; four orange unknown pills; 19 strip packets of Bupenorphine and Naloxone, and two switch blade knives found.

Hidden within the box spring of the bed in the master bedroom was a Ziplock bag containing controlled substances, accessible through a slit in the side of the box spring. The bag contained plastic bags and suspected methamphetamine; four banded bundles of suspected heroin/fentanyl stamped Monster High 5; five banded bundles of suspected heroin/fentanyl stamped Outbreak, and a single bag of suspected heroin stamped Monster High.

In the living room on the couch was an AR15 rifle with a scope and bipod with no visible serial number. The firearm had a magazine inserted, loaded with 30 cartridges. An additional cellphone was on the couch.

A duffle bag in the living room had a Kel-Tec folding firearm, Sub 2000, .40 caliber, SN EJ253, which had a magazine inserted, loaded with five cartridges; a Sportsman 12 auto shotgun with a cut barrel of less than 18 inches; and a firearm noise suppressor.

The exterior of the residence had a video-surveillance system. Two vehicles were parked in the driveway: a white Chrysler Sebring with a Florida registration, and a 2017 gray Toyota Camry.

In the cars police found an electronic money counting machine, a canvas storage box with a cellphone, a magnetic box, a 9 mm cartridge, Narcan boxes, a counterfeit currency scanner, a notebook with drug transaction documentation, a Taser, blackjack, a box containing gun components for the shotgun, a false SpaghettiOs container with a green ammunition can, packaging material, white rice, rubber bands, empty stamp new stamp bags, and a banded bundle of suspected heroin, and mail addressed to McHugh.

His girlfriend was in the house, and was taken to the Lehighton barracks. Before being transported to the station, McHugh told police the woman doesn’t know anything, and that she is pregnant.

McHugh’s girlfriend told police that she didn’t know about guns in the residence. She said that she has heard McHugh speak about obtaining drugs and was aware of several drug addicts visiting him for brief periods.

She said that she was aware of McHugh hiding drugs under the hood of their vehicles at various times, and identified the Chrysler as belonging to McHugh, and that he drove the Camry on Oct. 26.

McHugh faces charges on five counts of make repairs/sell/etc. offensive weapon; four counts of possession of firearm prohibited; two counts of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture of deliver; and one count each of intentional possession controlled substance by person not registered, and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

He is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 monetary bail, and was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.