A Nesquehoning man faces criminal charges after allegedly selling drugs and a sawed-off shotgun to a confidential informant last summer.

Andrew Gambino, 49, was arraigned Friday by District Judge Beth Dodson on charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance; sale or transfer of firearms to a person ineligible to possess; loan, lending or giving firearms prohibited; prohibited offensive weapons; and criminal use of a communication facility.

Gambino was lodged in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning in lieu of $40,000 bail.

The arrest was part of a drug trafficking investigation by the state Office of the Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control and the Carbon County Drug Task Force.

According to the criminal complaint, a confidential informant on July 1 arranged to meet Gambino at his home on West Patterson Street in Lansford to purchase a sawed-off shotgun for $200 and $20 worth of methamphetamine.

The informant was under surveillance when he went into the home and emerged carrying a bag. The informant turned over the shopping bag, which contained a Kessler Arms Model 326FR 20-gauge bolt action shotgun with the barrel sawed-off below 10 inches.

The informant told investigators that the gun and methamphetamine were turned over to him by Gambino with the pre-recorded buy money from the Attorney General’s Office.