HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Five men were arrested Friday night after a drug bust at a Holiday Inn Express in Hempfield Township, according to Channel 11's News exchange partners at TribLIVE.
Police were looking for Marcus Williams, 19, of Pittsburgh after he escaped custody Thursday night.
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Undercover officers saw five men, including Williams, in the Holiday Inn Express parking lot on state Route 30, according to TribLIVE.
Officers watched one man make a separate drug transaction.
Three of the men left the hotel, later to be taken into custody by police on the North Greengate Road exit.
The men were identified as Michael Gregory David, 18, of Pittsburgh; Hallowd Ray Whitt, 36, of Dawson; and Vinntez Hollaman, 18, of Pittsburgh, according to TribLIVE.
The other two men were arrested in the hotel by police and identified as Marcus Williams and Maurice Williams, 21, of Pittsburgh.
According to TribLIVE, police sized a total of 535 stamp bags of heroin, 10 grams of crack cocaine, $510 and drug paraphernalia from the hotel room.
Friday, Marcus Williams was charged with several drug-related offenses and escape. He was charged again Saturday with two counts of felony drug possession, two other drug-related offenses and providing false identification to law enforcement.
He is currently being held in the Westmoreland County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail for the first set of charges and $50,000 for the second set, according to TribLIVE.
David, Whitt, Hollaman and Maurice Williams have been charged with felony manufacture, delivery or possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.
All four are being held in the Westmoreland County Prison.
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