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Coaldale man faces drug counts

Coaldale police have filed charges against John Russop, 52, of 129 E. Phillips St., Coaldale, after conducting a traffic stop at the request of state parole agents.

Russop was stopped at 5:11 p.m. on Oct. 28 as he was driving a tan Buick Roadmaster on Third Street. When parole agents arrived they took Russop into custody and searched the vehicle.Once they found a glass pipe with a white substance under the passenger seat, they stopped the search and impounded the vehicle. The white substance field tested positive for methamphetamine.Police then obtained a search warrant for the sedan. In the trunk, under the carpeted area near the spare tire, the officers found two plastic shopping bags and a black eyeglass case with two plastic bags.One shopping bag contained a bag with five individually sealed bags and a second bag with eight such individual bags, each filled with a substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine.The second plastic bag had ten individual packets of Suboxone and seven and one half pills identified as Alprazolam.The items were all sent to the state police crime lab for additional testing.Russop went with the parole agents and was incarcerated.Coaldale police have filed charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver, and possession of drug paraphernalia.