A hit-and-run accident in a bank parking lot led to drug charges being filed Sunday against a Bradford man.
Brian M. Stahl, 37, 89 Mechanic St., was arraigned Sunday afternoon before District Judge William Todd on the following charges: possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance, a felony; possession of an instrument of crime, a first-degree misdemeanor; three counts of possession of a controlled substance and five counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, misdemeanors; and summary charges of accidental damage to attended vehicle or property, driving without a license and careless driving.
The criminal complaint states that at 11:04 a.m. Sunday, Bradford City Police were dispatched to a hit-and-run accident in the PNC Bank parking lot on Main Street. Police arrived on scene to see the east corner of the PNC Bank drive-thru canopy was damaged and a surveillance camera had broken off and was laying in the driveway.
The person who called police reported that a U-Haul box truck struck the canopy and a male — later identified as Stahl — got out, obtained money from the ATM, then drove away, according to the complaint.
An officer found the U-Haul parked in Stahl’s driveway, and Stahl admitted to the officer that he was driving when the truck struck the bank’s canopy. There was a backpack sitting on the ground directly in front of the truck that smelled like marijuana and had a glass pipe sticking out of it, the complaint alleged.
After Stahl gave permission for police to search the U-Haul, he “spontaneously uttered (to police) that the money located in the cup holder was not from drug sales,” court records stated.
In the box truck, police found a clear plastic bag with methamphetamine residue, a glass pipe with meth residue, a tin containing THC brownies and marijuana grinder, a butane burner, a pellet gun, a large fixed blade knife and $540 in cash, according to the complaint.
In the backpack, they found two pipes with marijuana residue, 100+ clear plastic bags typically used for narcotic distribution, a glass container that contained meth, a clear bag containing meth, a vape pen with suspected THC oil and a cell phone, court records stated.
Stahl is incarcerated in McKean County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for April 7.
