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Man pleads guilty to drug charges

A Norristown man pleaded guilty to drug charges recently in Schuylkill County Court.

Common Pleas Judge Jacqueline Russell accepted the guilty plea of Joshua Jannett, 39, to manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, two counts of possessing a controlled substance and use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

Jannett appeared via video conference from the Schuylkill County Prison.

“I wish to plead guilty because I am guilty,” he said.

Jannett said he was “disappointed” in himself and wanted to put the error in judgment behind him and move forward with his life.

He thanked Russell for revoking his bail previously because it enabled him to come to terms with what he had done.

Russell accepted his plea and ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for an undisclosed later date.

Tamaqua Police charged Jannett for the December 2018 incident when an officer stopped him for a license plate that didn’t appear real.

Police detected an odor of marijuana and noticed a torch lighter in the car. Jannett, who was wanted in New Jersey for marijuana possession, was then arrested.

Searching him yielded “a small container of white crystal like substance,” he said was methamphetamine. A plastic container containing three “small plastic baggies and a blue straw” were also found.

Jannett said a duffel bag in the vehicle had marijuana when asked if there was anything illegal in the car.

Items found in the bag including marijuana, containers, bags, a digital scale, a grinder and a vacuum sealer.

A search warrant of the car led to the discovery of, among other items, marijuana, a digital scale, a plastic bottle marked “methadone,” a notebook containing a ledger, and $1,380.