Crime & Safety

Woman Had Crack in Bra, Cash in Panties, Police Say

Wilson borough woman faces drug charges after making alleged drug sale at Bethlehem Township shopping center, according to arrest affidavit.

 

A Wilson borough woman allegedly sold crack cocaine to a confidential police informant Tuesday afternoon at the T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township police said.

Antoinette Desiree Motley, 24, of 900 S. 24th St., was the target of an investigation of township and Freemansburg borough police, which arranged for the meeting between the accused and the confidential informant, according to the arrest affidavit.

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Police officers stopped Motley in her car not long after the alleged drug transaction and took her into custody, the affidavit says.

At Bethlehem Township police headquarters, Motley was strip-searched by a female Northampton County Prison corrections officer who found baggies holding multiple smaller baggies of suspected crack cocaine in each of her bra cups, the affidavit says.

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The corrections officer also found the pre-recorded currency—which police had given to the confidential informant to make the buy—in Motley’s panties, the affidavit says.

Motley was charged with possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine, possession of crack cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Patricia Romig-Passaro and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $30,000 bail.


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