NORRISTOWN — A former Pottstown man must report to jail after Thanksgiving after he admitted to drug trafficking-related activities in the borough.
Matthew Tyrel Carter Jr., 25, formerly of the unit block of South Frankli n Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Tuesday to 9 to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances and conspiracy to deliver controlled substances in connection with an October 2022 incident in the borough.
Judge Steven T. O’Neill ordered Carter to report to jail at 6 p.m. Nov. 29 to begin serving the sentence.
O’Neill said Carter can be made eligible for work release but only after serving six months of the minimum sentence.
Carter, most recently of the 400 block of Old Philadelphia Pike, Douglassville, also must complete two years of probation consecutive to parole, meaning Carter will be under court supervision for about four years.
The judge recommended that Carter be placed under substance abuse disorder supervision while serving the sentence.
Court documents indicate Carter was arrested after a so-called “controlled drug transaction” during which he delivered an amount of packaged heroin/fentanyl to an undercover police informant at a prearranged meeting place in the borough in October 2022.
On Oct. 18, borough police and county detectives went to Carter’s South Franklin Street apartment with a warrant to search the premises as part of the ongoing drug investigation.
When police searched Carter’s bedroom they found a bundle of heroin/fentanyl inside a clothes drawer, according to the arrest affidavit filed by Pottstown Police Sergeant Brian Weitzel.
“The heroin/fentanyl was packaged in blue wax baggies that were individually packaged in clear glassine baggies,” Weitzel wrote in the arrest affidavit.
Police alleged that the bulk quantities of the drugs found during the search were possessed with the intent to deliver the drugs and were not for personal use.
Two other men who also were inside the apartment at the time of the search were also charged with drug-related offenses, according to court papers.
Other charges of criminal use of a communication facility and possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed against Carter.
