A Lansford man has been charged with possessing large amounts of drug paraphernalia.

At 4:46 a.m. Feb. 28, Lansford officer Callen Rich spotted Joshua Tessitore, 37, known to have warrants, shoveling the sidewalk on West Ridge Street.

Rich called for officer Christopher Fischi of the Summit Hill Police Department to help take Tessitore into custody.

Police took him into custody and found two brass knuckles, needles, and meth in his pockets. A further search of Tessitore provided multiple bags of a crystalline substance consistent with methamphetamine and a scale.

Inside his pocket, a black pouch containing a drug kit was found, with multiple packets of an white powdered substance consistent with fentanyl, including wrapped orange pills. Green pills in an unlabeled prescription container and syringes were located in his jacket.

Tessitore kept claiming that his life was over. When asked why, he kept saying he had “weight” on him, which is indicative to a large amount of drugs.

Tessitore dumped a black backpack in the walkway at a home along West Ridge Street. The backpack contained a drug scale, marijuana, bulk methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia.

The total amount of drugs seized included about 647 grams of suspected methamphetamine; 1.8 grams of suspected fentanyl/heroin; 6.8 grams of suspected crack cocaine; 1.3 grams of suspected marijuana; 40 pills of suspected alprazolam; and 27 suspected unknown orange pills.

Tessitore faces charges on six counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance; four counts of possession of controlled or counterfeit substance; two counts of prohibited offensive weapon; and one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled substance.

Tessitore is in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 monetary bail. Charges were waived for court during a preliminary hearing Wednesday.