LIGONIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Thirty bricks of suspected heroin were found Thursday after a police chase in Ligonier Township.
The Ligonier Valley Police Department said it received a tip from an agency outside Westmoreland County that a large sum of heroin was going to be transported through the Ligonier Valley area in a car with a woman driving and a man as a passenger.
Police officers located the car at the GetGo gas station near the intersection of routes 30 and 711. It then sped away, turning down several side roads before returning to Route 711, where it was stopped near Darlington Rector Road.
The passenger is accused of throwing his shoes and the heroin from the car while it was on the side roads. Police said they found the shoes on Slater Road and a K-9 was brought in to search for the drugs, which were found in a white bag nearby.
The 30 bricks of suspected heroin were made up of 1,500 individual bags of the drug, police said.