An Albrightsville man has been charged with drug possession after he was found to be passed out inside his vehicle and offered money to police to let him go.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by officer Mason Moran of the Kidder Township Police Department in the case against Eric Pauloski:

At 8:21 p.m. Dec. 21, 2022, police were dispatched to the Route 534 and Holiday Drive where there was a man passed out in an SUV sitting in the parking lot of the welcome center.

Police said the interior lights were on and the driver, identified as Pauloski, 41, was stretched out in the driver seat and appeared to be asleep.

Police could see Pauloski had a needle in his arm of Pauloski, and multiple little bags in his lap and the center console of the vehicle.

Moran knocked on the window multiple times and announced his presence, but it took several more attempts of knocking on the window and yelling for Pauloski to wake up.

Once awake, Pauloski attempted to put the vehicle in drive, but was unsuccessful.

Moran ordered Pauloski out of the vehicle, but he refused.

Moran then assisted Pauloski out of the vehicle, and Pauloski offered Moran $3,000 in cash if he let him go.

Pauloski resisted arrest and ran from Moran down Holiday Drive ans turned on Pine Lane.

Moran deployed his Taser and Pauloski fell to the ground and continued to actively resist him. Pauloski was placed into custody and his car was searched. Moran found one small parchment paper envelope with a white substance, cash, change, debt card, and a construction pencil.

There were multiple syringes with and without caps, tin foil with a white residue, parchment envelopes, vempty baggies, syringes and a scale on the passenger seat of the vehicle.

In the back was a black fabric case that was not closed or concealed containing two vials of liquid substances; a yellow baggie with a pink rocky substance; a small vial with a white crystalline substance; and a clear baggie containing large white crystalline rocks inside. There was also $45 in small bills inside of the left compartment of the black fabric case.

Pauloski faces charges on two counts each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a controlled substance; along with one count each of resisting arrest/other law enforcement and use/possession of drug paraphernalia.

Pauloski is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Feb. 1 before District Judge Joseph D. Homanko Sr. of Weatherly.