UPDATE: Police seize drugs and cash

DINGMANS FERRY — Pike County District Attorney, Ray Tonkin, announced Thursday that the Pike County Drug Task Force with the assistance of the Pennsylvania State Police served a search warrant on a residence in Birchwood Lakes in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania. As a result of the search at the residence and storage shed police discovered a significant quantity of drugs and drug related items. Police found: one ounce of cocaine, cutting agents, 360 bags of heroin, package materials, 116 ecstasy pills, $20,328 in US currency, 31 morphine pills, 76 grams of marihuana, 59 hydrocodone pills, and $2,160 in counterfeit US Currency. In addition, police discovered three counterfeit Pennsylvania Driver’s Licenses and one counterfeit New York drivers License bearing a picture of McManus and the identifying information of four other individuals. Police charged resident John McManus, 36, of Dingmans Ferry, with six counts of Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance, all felonies; forgery, a felony; identity theft, a misdemeanor and drug paraphernalia charges. McManus was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Deborah Fischer and remanded to the Pike County Correctional Facility in lieu of $500,000 bail. McManus has three other cases pending before the Pike County Court of Common Please involving charges of Forgery, Tampering with Records or Identification, Identity Theft, and Access Device Fraud. A Preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 6 at 1 p.m. before Judge Fischer. According to District Attorney Ray Tonkin, authorities have been seeing an increase in drug trafficking arrests in the county over the past several years. Anyone with information on drug trafficking in Pike County can call the district attorney’s office at 570-296-3482 and ask for the Detective Bureau. All calls will be kept confidential.